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the sun doesn't set, the horizon rises.

No, the earth rotates. How's that for pedantic?

Technically it doesn't just rotate, it rotates and translates. And in the meantime the whole system (sun and earth) is moving relative to the galactic frame, which is its self moving. So if you want to predict the exact time the horizon will come up to to block out the sun, you need to do a bit more than just calculate the time one rotation takes since the earth will have moved noticeably meaning that the suns relative position will be just a bit (slightly less than 1/356 of a rotation) moved from the previous day.

How's that for pedantic?

Not even close. A real pedant would tell us exactly how much the sun would move on average and probably take into account the slowing effect of the moon all in order to just tell us that the real dominant effect is that the person watching the sunset is going down relative to the horizon.

back in the day. but Uber won't work with anyone or anything. http://www.slate.com/articles/...

It's not just shiny object affliction. This chick apparently has a stack depth of 1.5 items.

Even after fifteen consecutive distractions, I still usually know I left the kettle on.

To begin with, I have about a five-task planning horizon. This isn't even a stack. On a good day, I can be actively pursuing three tasks in parallel, while sizing up two more off to the side (and maybe grabbing utensils soon to be needed, if in my other flurry I discover them near to hand).

I originally learned to do this playing too many arcade games in my early twenties. I played one game with two joysticks for so many hours, that my cognition perceptibly split in two. I became completely aware of one planning horizon for navigation (mostly evasion, some targetting) and a separate planning horizon for aggression (the weapon stick) and some kind of mutual constraint optimization going on between these (this sometimes in the heat of the moment fell by the wayside, and my two hands would simply continue to function independently, each hand sort of making guesses about what the other hand might do—there was often a point in those old arcade games where the game would decide you had already played long enough, and it was time to terminate you with extreme prejudice; often I managed to beat the game nevertheless, but good luck keeping both hands on a fully coordinated, shared page for the death-defying duration; this was back during the Miller's Crossing "ethics" phase, where game designers felt obligated to give you a real chance, however slim).

I also have a sleep disorder, and regularly in the thick of my sleep disorder, my elite, simultaneous planning horizon shrinks down to a single task (or portion thereof). Damn is that annoying. And there's this voice that follows me throughout the whole day: "You know what? If you had your real brain, you'd have dunked that basketball three times just on the way to the bathroom to take a piss. And today you haven't managed to dunk that basketball even once in the past hour, sitting in your work chair, occupied with nothing else."

And I go, "thanks for the vote of confidence; and, oh yeah, ba da bing for reminding me where I was heading just now".

On the squirrel front, I have a somewhat different problem than the chick of the moment. My verbal intelligence is like Uncle Buck. Once he enters the room, it's very hard to send him packing again so I can return to working on math or code: 300 immobile lbs of curtain-ring Velcro. Consequently, I've also subjected myself to this kind of sad self-chaperonage, but for a different reason: to try to keep my word-brain at bay for long enough to accomplish other things.

Ideally, I would get through three two-hour blocks by mid-day and that would be the end of my technical obligations. But even ten minutes of Rachel Maddow (is the world still here? huh? is it? huh?) while I consume my morning coffee and jot a few notes in my journal is sometimes enough to compromise my entire morning. My squirrels are mainly verbal notions; they are generated internally, from the very first meagre sign of a toasted bread crumb, all the way until the sun goes down.

When I was feeling up for it, I used to sometimes cook a five course meal, with five unfamiliar recipes, selected from an unfamiliar cuisine (one time it was Korean, another time some country in Africa), involving maybe a dozen unfamiliar ingredients, while aiming to serve all of these dishes hot more or less at the same time. Usually I managed four, while shunting a problem child into "maybe tomorrow", or "maybe next time". Which should make it obvious why I clipped the following paragraphs on first encounter:

Time Is on Your Side — 7 October 2015

Bread is dough's destiny, and bread-making is like being a parent: Just as a child can be spoiled by too much interfe

You haven't been looking hard enough. I pulled this from a google image search, so I haven't read the article, but the guy in front is clearly carrying in a ready to fire position, the guy in back might be debatable.
Both are clearly there to intimidate.

I'm primarily commenting about conspiracy theorists here. On one hand "they" are conspiring to keep us "unhappy and afraid." On the other hand, an effective depression treatment would immediately be assailed as "they" feeding us feelgood dope to distract us from the real problems of the world.

But if a treatment for depression has been found, it might give us a feeling of agency to work on real-world problems instead of going down for the umpteenth time in the constant sea of manufactured gloom on public issues. An example is climate: deniers on one side, on the other activists who keep insisting that the problem is Real Serious Now, but at the same time reject any approaches that might actually fix the problem. Their reaction to the Haida sequestration experiment is an example:
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

This is a small-scale experiment that worked, brilliantly, and just has to be scaled up and deployed in places where the algal bloom it produced would sink to abyssal depths after it dies. But climate activists were horrified that it was even tried.

Incase you haven't heard the news, JavaScript and NodeJS are single handedly eating the world of software.

Creator of JavaScript is a homophobe, who opposed gay marriage. It is immoral to use it.

Similarly, because the US Constituion and the Pythagoras' Theorem were thought up by slave-owners, it is immoral (and should be illegal!) to use them too!

PMS may be a cultural symptom, not a biological one.

I'll re-emphasize the bold text in that article: Just because something is a social construction does not mean we don’t experience it.

If you have a problem and it's affecting your life enough that you feel you need a cure, then the causes are immaterial except where they're related to the cure. In this particular case, good luck coming up with a societal and psychological cure for PMS.

Also, if you're thinking it's an anglo issue, you jumped the gun. PMS is a thing in China, though I don't know about the numbers.

Show me one fucking story, just one, of an Antifa member defending a single person being "attacked"?

Step 1: Remove head from asshole
Step 2: Read this fine article

PMS may be a cultural symptom, not a biological one.

Animals have lived for millions of years without any money.

And yet somehow humans are the only stupid animal who can't figure this shit out.

> The right is inherent in the very nature of society

[[Citation]] because you are talking about only _one_ government and assuming that there is nothing better.

> real society

Define "real society".

Taxation IS theft. PERIOD. It is fantastical thinking has absolutely no relation to how a advanced society could ever function.

Your entire concept of money is based in a flawed premise -- there is never enough -- so we are going to create artificial scarcity to give it some "perceived" value -- and then take it from you without your permission.

As one alien said : "You mean you have to PAY to live on the planet you were born on???"

If people could dictate what X% of their taxes went towards education vs the genocide (military) far less people would have a problem with the complete and total mis-management of it. What other company do you know that is allowed to run decades with TRILLIONS of debt -- yet somehow it is magically OK when the government does it ??? WTF!!!

2001 $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2004
http://blog.visual.ly/wp-conte...

2008
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs1...

2009
http://www.infohow.org/wp-cont...

2011
http://www.coolinfographics.co...

2012
http://chiefmartec.com/post_im...

* A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Lastly, the problem is not the taxes per say. Instead of having over 2,600 pages of BULLSHIT you could summarize the ENTIRE tax law with one sentence -- but since everyone is too fucking stupid to do anything about it we are stuck with a broken, in-debt, slave system.

Wait a minute, if a baker can be forced to bake a wedding cake, a pizza shop forced to make pizzas, and a photographer forced to photograph weddings they find offensive, why can't a DNS provider be forced to provide DNS services for a group they dislike?

Is it because Google has 'Terms of Services' that says they don't have to provide services to people and groups they find offensive?

That's BS, under the public accommodation laws that hit bakeries, pizza parlors, and photographers, how can Google (or GoDaddy) get away with this?

Certainly that can't be because of biological differences

I'll bite: why not? The Fields medal limits to under 40, I've heard it pointed out on Slashdot that most mathematicians who have made substantive contributions did so by age 30. It's not universally true but still a strong trend.

With women and people of color, the argument is they are discouraged from entering fields dominated by white dudebros. Maybe that's true of old fogeys too, I could see that, but there should be older employees there who were younger when they were hired. I have no idea if that's the case at google.

My point is, no one is saying "biological differences are never significant." People ARE saying "Biological differences between men and women and people of color and white dudes have not been proven to be significant." Because they haven't despite centuries of scientists attempting to prove it.

anti sell? that's a new.

Only to people who are not paying attention is that "a new".

so tell me again why did they repay their another loan in record time and then pursue this presumably more expensive loan?

For one, by repaying early they avoided letting the US government cash out on $300m worth of stock options. For two, it deprived people like you of a cudgel to say "See, they're dependent on the government". Not like it stopped you, or not like people like you ever bring that up about companies like Chrysler that never repaid part of their loans.

You know, by the way, you don't need to ask these things, you can just look them up for yourself.

the reason why this is sort of interesting is that they're seeking money this way and that is usually not a very good sign for a company like this in a situation like this.

So you think that stockholders should want to be diluted rather than pay interest, in a company undergoing a rapid expansion? Praytell why?

it just isn't. it's a sign that the usual lenders/investors have put on a squeeze on how much they are willing to dump money

Ah, yes, because you can just put $1,5 billion dollars on your credit card.

if you had been touting ford as an industrial genius in 1901,

Given that Ford Motor Company wasn't even founded until 1903, that's a stupid comparison.

In your analogy, 1901 is 2001 (Tesla was founded in 2003). Ford's prototype car Sweepstakes is AC Propulsion's tzero. The equivalent on Ford's timeline to the present is the middle of 1917. And ironically, in 1917 Ford was just starting on the River Rouge complex, the Gigafactory of its day.

And as for your long "bank" screed, I don't even know which bank you're talking about. Tesla Motors as received investments from numerous sources (including banks) over the years. Tesla's starting capital was provided by Elon Musk and Mark Tarpenning out of their personal assets (Musk's from the sale of Paypal); the Series B funding round added in Valor Equity Partners. Wait a minute, is it Paypal that you're trying to say is a "bank that is not a bank" in your screed?

Citation:

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

The government should have gotten much more from the investment:
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

One reason for these degree mills is the Indian marriage market. Dowries are common, where the bride's family will give money and assets to the groom's family. A son can bring in a bigger dowry if he has a degree, but it is less important that he actually learn anything useful. Degree mills provide credentials that cost less than the expected bump in the dowry value.

I have to wonder how long that practice will last now. I've worked with both male and female Indian software engineers, in the same office, and I have to say the female engineers tend to be better than the males. Pathologically nonassertive, but still better. Seems to me the dowries should be going the other way, especially if India actually has a shortage of women. (First I'd heard that assertion, and you gave no citations.)

I am really wondering how China's gender imbalance is going to play out. You'd think that women would become highly valued, because that would be the sensible reaction to serious scarcity, but human cultures aren't noted for sane reactions in the face of bizarre imbalances. They might just double down on their devaluing of women. That would be more than a little concerning, especially if you're Russian. 30 million single men with zero prospects of marriage (the projected number by 2020), is pretty much the definition of social instability. The notion of polyandry was floated a couple of years ago by a Chinese professor of economics at Zhejing University, and apparently caused quite a stir in China on the Internet. The exact nature of the response is obscured behind the language barrier. Slate, naturally, only reports about the reaction of Chinese feminists, who are presumably a vanishingly small percentage of the population. I'm curious what the mainstream reaction was.

Incidentally, that article also mentions the Indian imbalance, so there's at least some source for the assertion.

As the apocryphal ancient Chinese curse says, "May you live in interesting times." China and India both are in for some very interesting times. Putin's paranoia about Russia being invaded (again) makes a little bit of sense.

There were several years when the most common predicted effect of carbon warming was drought - endless drought, in every possible place, and there's nothing we can do about it! (Muahahahaha!). Articles like these have been typical:

https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
http://news.mit.edu/2017/clima...
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/fl...
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/0...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/0...

Let's just say that if you sell stock photos of dry lake beds, you're probably a millionaire by now.

There were several years when the most common predicted effect of carbon warming was drought - endless drought, in every possible place, and there's nothing we can do about it! (Muahahahaha!). Articles like these have been typical:

https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
http://news.mit.edu/2017/clima...
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/fl...
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/0...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/0...

Let's just say that if you sell stock photos of dry lake beds, you're probably a millionaire by now.

There were several years when the most common predicted effect of carbon warming was drought - endless drought, in every possible place, and there's nothing we can do about it! (Muahahahaha!). Articles like these have been typical:

https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
http://news.mit.edu/2017/clima...
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/fl...
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/0...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/0...

Let's just say that if you sell stock photos of dry lake beds, you're probably a millionaire by now.

Just because the other journals are, "respected" doesn't mean they are smarter.

It's been a problem for a while.

And will continue to be.

It pisses me off that drivers think their gasoline taxes pay for the roads, when in fact gasoline taxes and other user fees pay less than half of the cost of the roads.

Then they build bike paths to get bicycles out of their way and expect bicyclists to pay for them.

Then they complain about bicycles rolling through stop signs while selectively ignoring drivers who don't come to a complete stop.

And by the way, did you know that drivers violate the right of way of pedestrians more often than the other way around? We need more crosswalk stings in order to get those drivers off the road.

There have literally been over a thousand cataloged attacks from the right wing since the election.

Attacks from liberals on conservatives have been fewer, the chart one month goes up to ten!

The left wing violence list includes things like "throwing eggs" while the right wing violence list has "throwing acid."

I'm sure there are better sources for this information out there and I'm interested if anyone has any. I just did a quick google search on both.

At any rate, I can't fathom anyone who suggests violent college students are a serious threat. They're far less scary than Islamic terrorists, which are themselves factually less dangerous than armed toddlers. Don't be an asshole racist demagogue and go to the most wildly liberal campus in the united states and you'll have nothing to fear from college progressives.

Or do even! Not a goddamn hair on Milo or Coulters' heads were harmed! Fucking snowflakes...

Aside from my earlier post about GMO actually being able to increase biodiversity, Greenpeace, who is behind every talking point you've ever made on this topic, has blatantly lied to you, multiple times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Greenpeace also likes to hold two opposing arguments at the same time about GMO Bt, depending on which side best fits their pre-conceived narrative (without doing any actual research) on that particular day:

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Further reading where Greenpeace holds double standards:

https://geneticliteracyproject...
https://geneticliteracyproject...

Drop the anti-GMO crusade. It's pure post-truth populism and anti-science bullshit. To date there is not a single good argument against GMO. And if that's not enough, the most of the anti-GMO scientific papers about health impact were authored by a guy who has an established history of manipulating his data in order to fit his activist narrative:

http://retractionwatch.com/201...

He's currently under investigation by the Italian senate for scientific fraud. And by the way, GMO has been saving the lives of diabetics allergic to cow and pig insulin since 1982.

What rubs me in the wrong way is that the school would have criteria for what are considered acceptable plans for the future. They would not only be judging whether the student has thought about the future, but also the decision itself.

That's really scary. Where we have historically seen fuzzy criteria like this in places like crime sentencing, prosecutorial discretion, and voting literacy requirements, they have almost always resulted in higher standards being applied to minorities (particularly African Americans).

Lest you think your skin color makes you immune to this problem, this is just the fairly easily quantifiable effect. Black Americans are the canary in the coalmine for locating an unfair subjective system. If you or your kid manages to get a bad rep, or has a weird hairstyle/color, or heaven forbid, actually ticks off the school administration, that could be you too.

Nope.

Yep.

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Indeed. Knee-jerk cynicism about the future on a website billing itself as news for nerds has always struck me as ridiculous.

But what do I know? I'm just distracting my dumb brain with sex and drugs in this brave new world and the rest of my energy is spent trying to scrounge up some soylent green.

The future is always bleak. I guess no one wants to risk being accused of being naive when they suggest the future might be better instead of worse. Diseases have fallen to unthinkable levels, worldwide poverty is steadily going down, the population is showing signs of coming to a manageable steady state, people are living longer as a result of easier lives, violent crime is dropping, democracy is increasing... but no, it's all going to hell in a handbasket because robots gonna take all out jerbs!

Indeed. Knee-jerk cynicism about the future on a website billing itself as news for nerds has always struck me as ridiculous.

But what do I know? I'm just distracting my dumb brain with sex and drugs in this brave new world and the rest of my energy is spent trying to scrounge up some soylent green.

The future is always bleak. I guess no one wants to risk being accused of being naive when they suggest the future might be better instead of worse. Diseases have fallen to unthinkable levels, worldwide poverty is steadily going down, the population is showing signs of coming to a manageable steady state, people are living longer as a result of easier lives, violent crime is dropping, democracy is increasing... but no, it's all going to hell in a handbasket because robots gonna take all out jerbs!

In sum, of 258 endpoints, 238—92 percent—showed no effects. (Four endpoints didn’t yield data.) Only 16 showed effects. Negative effects showed up 9 times—3.5 percent of all outcomes; 7 showed a benefit from using neonics—2.7 percent.

As one scientist pointed out, in statistics there is a widely accepted standard that random results are generated about 5 percent of the time—which means by chance alone we would expect 13 results meaninglessly showing up positive or negative.

You might as well publish a story that said. "Scientists prove that a casino die rolled 16 times came up a 4, 5, or 6, nine whole times. So dice are clearly all weighted to roll high. This is patently stupid.

Maybe neonicotinoids do kill bees, but this study sure doesn't show it. And whatever the effect is, it's pretty small.

Can anybody argue after this that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is not infringed if carrying one legally gets you killed by the law for doing nothing except following the rules?

Sure, and the NRA did not say anything about Andrew Scott being killed either.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...

So when Trump started saying things like healthcare for all and good jobs and education folks rallied around him because, hey, whatdayagot to lose?

I think you have Trump confused with Bernie. Trump told 'merica that he has a really great healthcare plan, the best. So good, in fact, even he isn't sure of the details - but it will be great! On jobs, Trump claimed he'd bring them back. He wasn't very clear on this one either; perhaps he meant reanimating the corpse of the late Steve Jobs. Maybe he wants to build one of those sarcophagus things from Stargate SG1. That would take care of healthcare and bringing back Jobs. Of course, there were also hellish naquadah mines on SG1, so bringing back mining is also a possibility.

As for education, your highschool participation award is good enough to work in our naquadah mines or build air conditioners. You don't have to go to college to MAGA. You're entitled to the American Dream(TM) by mere virtue of American exceptionalism!

I'm the original poster. My point was not about persecution, it was about explanation.
Here is a nice article about the "substitution effect" in entertainment spending. This effect also explains why, when blacks were prevented from purchasing desirable homes as their income increased, blacks instead spent that money on fancier clothes, cars, etc...
Lots of poor whites look at this slice of their spending and assume every other part is the same as theirs, it's not. That is my point. There are many subtle differences with historical roots.
This does not bear out in poor whites or "Rednecks" they move and blend. After a generation, stigma is gone and they have generally adopted the local culture.

... for Americans anyway.

Congress has passed Biometric Exit bills at least nine times. In each, it has been clear: This is a program meant for foreign nationals. In fact, when President Trump issued an executive order in January on Biometric Exit, it was actually reissued to clarify that it didn't apply to American citizens.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...

Sorry, I flubbed the cut-and-paste for the citation. Here it is: Most decisions are either 9-0 or 5-4. Scroll down for a graph of 9-0 vs 5-4 decisions.

Wow. For someone who lives in Texas and they do not know this AND in the energy corridor? Here BTW, I have lived in Texas all my life. And please leave God out of this, he did have the decency to create you [/sarcasm] (I am agnostic).

The whole discussion was about publishing efficiency requirements for appliance sold to the public. Pretty sure that applies to power (electricity) consumption, not power sources (oil/gas/coal) which are commodities that could create electricity. Plus all this tankers are most likely offloading oil to the refineries to be shipped out through all means of transportation, so yes, they could be bound for Dallas after refining. But I am sure we also export some petroleum products now as well after they broke the OPEC stranglehold.

Soooooo, what were you saying about shoelaces? You are still using those antiquated fasteners? Mine use velcro.

Nobody will name the staffer or say what happened to him.

Nobody will name him? So the thousands of articles that have the name "Charles Delevan" don't exist? This interview with the guy doesn't exist? The front page article in the New York Times (complete with a screenshot of the actual email) doesn't exist? Don't confuse your own ignorance with a conspiracy to keep information from you.

This is why Trump won the election, instead of trying to actually debate, you just immediately jump to insulting the poster for being stupid instead of actually trying to convince them of your side.

You might be surprised, but Trump didn't win the election because of any such thing.

He underperformed George W. Bush. He was below Obama, and Hillary. Only chance let him slink into office.

No landslide. No great gains. Not that you'll accept that, you have to blame the evul mean libruls.

The left might be surprised at the number of people they could persuade if they actually debated people instead of insisting that every issue is not open for discussion because the other side is wrong.

You might be surprised, but the left is used to dealing with the number of people on the right who are non-persuadable and who can't be debated, because they insist that the left isn't worth discussing anything with since they are wrong.

What can you in that circumstance, except move on?

Because at a certain point, you wash your hands of somebody, and that's what is happening with most of the discussion on AGW, pollution, and more.

Ever think about that?

According to google, the primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. CO2 makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere which is a very small percentage. Water vapor ranges from 1-4%. Another way to say that is there is 25-100 times more water vapor that CO2.

See, this is where you show a lack of integrity, because you know what? According to google, the folks talking about Global Warming know that, and can give you intelligent responses on it.

You'd think you'd mention that.

I remember just a few years ago, everyone was freaking out about the ozone disappearing (which is a greenhouse gas), now it's too much co2.

It wasn't ozone disappearing. It was the Ozone Layer a beneficial shield that blocks UV radiation. And yes, we were worried about the effects of various human activity, including CFCs on it.

Of course, once the Montreal Protocol was enacted, it became less of an issue, like leaded gasoline> or Acid Rain.

Amazing, huh?

The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is a rounding error compared to water vapor and should have a negligible effect unless it somehow behaves differently than water vapor. I honestly would like to know is C02 that much more potent than water vapor or does it somehow behave differently?

You would? You know this discussion has come up before, right?

You know, if you showed some awareness that we've already been over this, maybe you'd persuade people that you're worth convincing, and not just consumed by your own hand-wringing as you feign disgruntlement over a couple of anonymous cowards being uncivil.

Hiding behind the mantra of "the other side is evil and stupid so I won't engage" doesn't help anyone.

Hiding behind t

The MYTH of the welfare queen driving around in her Pink Cadillac is 100% a Republican one.

Actually, she existed, and she drove a Cadillac, but it wasn't pink. Her name was Linda Taylor, and she was engaged in all sorts of identity fraud and scams. Plus she was linked to a few suspicious deaths.

Now obviously she's the exception, rather than the rule. The level of fraud for welfare appears to be low.

You're wildly uninformed. Nigeria is the most dense country on the african continent. Number 73 worldwide. Well below several US territories. And hunger worldwide is falling dramatically. At least until climate change fucks everything up again.

Our former President used it.

Firefox losing market-share, Thunderbird increasingly abandoned, but, at least, Mozilla — after squeezing out that no-good hater — is socially just.

Replacing the inventor of JavaScript with someone from marketing made the world a better place. Rejoice!

what about enforcing the labor laws / adding an in between from 1099 to W2. or some like if you must where an uniform then you are W2.

I would love to one sign up for a 1099 job that forces an uniforms and not where it when they ask where is the uniform I can say where is the W2?

Right now we have sub contractors that are listed as 1099 but are controlled like w2 and when something goes wrong they get lumped with all of the costs even when it's not really there fault.

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

https://www.generalliabilitycl...

Can't you people leave him alone for a single day? He finished up his orb business, then left the middle east to arrive at Israel, had a great time at the Holocaust museum and randomly decided to confess to outing an Israeli spy in front of Netanyahu - but all you people can do is make fun of his tiny, tiny hands.

Calm down, people, we don't want a fight here. Let's put aside our differences and try for the possibility of lasting peach on this site.

Apparently he bought that share to make people shut up about his name. Though he was named after a different Arm & Hammer according to this source.

Apparently, it's gotten so bad that even when it's different, it's the same.

This is supposedly the book that ruined hollywood...

This book took the history of three-act blockbuster movies and distilled movie making into a minute-to-minute movie formula (a beat sheet) for future amateur screen writers. Apparently, the author died in 2009 (the book was published in 2005) so he probably didn't know how bad it would become and can't even repent...

About time.

Harry Reid demanded he resign back in December, for example:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the......

So did the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks later in January, 2017:

http://thehill.com/policy/nati......

It's about time Trump cleaned out that bit of the swamp.

Ferret

We don't really care that much when people insult the president, and we can think badly of such people or goodly of them. That part doesn't matter.

Some of us remember differently.

People aren't going after him for the rest of his monologue, which was also very insulting, and they don't complain about John Oliver or Bill Maher when they face the camera and rattle off insults with no wit or insight.

Yes, they are, and yes they do.

It's the explicit profanity, and Colbert knows better.

You only care because Colbert hurt your precious Turnip's feelings, and yet we know better, because of this one time.

Yeah, that's a tip-off.

That's already happening in the gay community with PrEP.

That article makes the point though that STI rates in San Francisco are still way below "abstinence only" regions in the south. So it would seem that the AIDS scare isn't having an effect anyway in the areas it would matter most.

So plainly the notion that money is the absolute determinant in politics is false.

Oh no, the Republican gerrymandering is also a significant factor.

North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia all demonstrate the effectiveness of that manipulation.

Of course, they already lost in Arizona, so it won't be long before the people start taking back the power. Then what will they do?

Trains are just like planes, only a lot slower.

And sometimes jetliners are slower than bicycles.

Another nice thing about trains, besides not wasting time getting to altitude and besides being 3-5x as energy efficient as airplanes (if it's an electric train) and besides not making you stand in line to get groped and besides allowing to use your laptop and cell phone the whole trip, is that you can build a train station right in the middle of downtown where there's good transit and where a lot of travelers want to be anyway.