Really, +4, Interesting?
This is an inane comment, not an interesting one. They are ALREADY face-tagged, by us, before they ever enter this CAPTCHA scheme.
It just might. A president, at least according to precedent, can issue a blanket pardon.
From the Factcheck.org link below,
Q: Can a president issue a blanket pardon to an individual for crimes that may have been committed in the past but have not yet been discovered?
A:Yes. That's just what Gerald Ford did when he granted "a full, free, and absolute pardon" to Richard Nixon for crimes he "has committed or may have committed" while in office.
All he'd have to do would be to include all senior members of the administration. Could he include himself? I bet he'd think he could - which means he would.
According to Fareed Zakaria, quoted from "The Rise of the Rest", Newsweek, May 12th, 2008 - pg 31, (which is, I think, an excerpt from his book, "The Post American World") this statistic is misleading and misused.
To quote - "A few years ago the National Science Foundation put out a scary and much-discussed statistic. In 2004, the group said, 950,000 engineers graduated from China and India, while only 70,000 graduated from the United States. But those numbers are wildly off the mark. If you exclude the car mechanics and repairmen - who are all counted as engineers in Chinese and Indian statistics - the numbers look quite different. Per capita, it turns out, the United States trains more engineers than either of the Asian giants."
This is a big part of what is wrong with the USA (maybe the world) these days. "If I can point to someone else who is being more unethical than me, then I'm in the clear."
No. If it is unethical, it is unethical. Anything else is self-dealing rationalization.
This is the first step to pulling this society out of the sewer.
I don't think so. If it's important enough, Microsoft, with their gazillions of dollars and legions of very good programmers (not the mediocre ones - they're the footsoldiers - I'm talking about their Special Forces) could rip off something truly innovative and game-changing in a very short time. Certainly faster than the market takes to turn. And with some "Strategic Preannouncement" shenanigans, they can buy themselves enough time to do it.
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Really, +4, Interesting? This is an inane comment, not an interesting one. They are ALREADY face-tagged, by us, before they ever enter this CAPTCHA scheme.
Are you speaking of the media industry, ISP's, investment bankers, airlines, big pharma, or phone companies? Be clear, man! :-)
10^0 gives me 1, or 1 with 0 zeroes after it.
10^1 gives me 10, or 1 with 1 zero after it.
10^2 gives me 100, or 1 with 2 zeroes after it.
A google (actually, googol, as named by Milton Sirotta in 1938) is 1 with 100 zeroes after it, therefore 10^100.
(Or were you suggesting that it's that much better than Google?)
Interestingly, that is precisely the percentage of all statistics that are made up!
They say, "Once a pirate, always a pirate!" So why is it that these scurvy dogs never return to the straight and narrow?
Once you lose your first hand, yer HOOKED!
Why did the pirate wear a paper towel for a bandanna?
He heard that all good pirates have a bounty on their head!
Where would they send a Pirate Ship with a broken rib?
To the dock, in the sick bay.
Why couldn't the pirates play cards?
The captain was standing on the deck!
How do pirates know that they are pirates?
They know, because they ARRRR!!!!!
What does a bleached blonde and a pirate have in common?
A little black patch.
Did you hear about the pirate who took up boxing?
He had a killer left hook!
What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
A nervous wreck!
What's really a pirate's favorite letter?
P! Because it's an R, but it's missing a leg!
What's a horny pirate's worst nightmare?
A sunken chest with no booty!
What be a pirate's favorite vegetable?
ARRRRtichokes!
Have you heard about the new pirate movie?
It's rated AARRRRGGH! And you know why? Because of all the booty!
what do you call a pirate that skips class?
captain hooky!
What has 12 hands, 12 feet and 12 eyes?
A dozen Pirates!
What was Bluebeard's wife's name? Peg.
How does a pirate greet a prostitute? Yo Ho
What's a pirate's least favorite animal? Beaver.
Question: What did Captain Hook die from?
Answer: Jock Itch.
How did the pirate stop smoking?
He used the patch!
It just might. A president, at least according to precedent, can issue a blanket pardon. From the Factcheck.org link below,
Q: Can a president issue a blanket pardon to an individual for crimes that may have been committed in the past but have not yet been discovered?
A:Yes. That's just what Gerald Ford did when he granted "a full, free, and absolute pardon" to Richard Nixon for crimes he "has committed or may have committed" while in office.
All he'd have to do would be to include all senior members of the administration. Could he include himself? I bet he'd think he could - which means he would.
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/can_a_president_issue_a_blanket_pardon.html
The fact remains, it's a grossly inflated number.
According to Fareed Zakaria, quoted from "The Rise of the Rest", Newsweek, May 12th, 2008 - pg 31, (which is, I think, an excerpt from his book, "The Post American World") this statistic is misleading and misused. To quote - "A few years ago the National Science Foundation put out a scary and much-discussed statistic. In 2004, the group said, 950,000 engineers graduated from China and India, while only 70,000 graduated from the United States. But those numbers are wildly off the mark. If you exclude the car mechanics and repairmen - who are all counted as engineers in Chinese and Indian statistics - the numbers look quite different. Per capita, it turns out, the United States trains more engineers than either of the Asian giants."
This is a big part of what is wrong with the USA (maybe the world) these days. "If I can point to someone else who is being more unethical than me, then I'm in the clear."
No. If it is unethical, it is unethical. Anything else is self-dealing rationalization.
This is the first step to pulling this society out of the sewer.
I don't think so. If it's important enough, Microsoft, with their gazillions of dollars and legions of very good programmers (not the mediocre ones - they're the footsoldiers - I'm talking about their Special Forces) could rip off something truly innovative and game-changing in a very short time. Certainly faster than the market takes to turn. And with some "Strategic Preannouncement" shenanigans, they can buy themselves enough time to do it.