Sure. I could also just not define my life by having hundreds of "friends" who I had a class with one and talked to twice, but because Facebook matched us, lets pretend to care about the fact that you had bacon for dinner or that you want me to join farmville. Blah.
I left facebook because I had to wade through a mountain of crap to find the few interesting or important things. My "zero" friends also migrated with me, as they were sick of doing the same thing.
Does it rot in the field, providing fertilizer for the next generation of crops and thus reducing the overall costs due to the fact so much artificial fertilizer doesn't need to be used? It isn't waste if it is actually being used for something.
I disagree. They already have the hard drive. They have a warrant to read what is on the hard drive. What the suspect has basically done is destroy evidence and obstruct justice to prevent officers fulfilling their lawful duties.
If you had evidence in a safe and a device that would incinerate such evidence if you didn't open the safe with the proper pass code, I would also expect them to get a court order to force you to revel the pass code, or at least open the safe. The government shouldn't be forced to break down doors to obtain evidence.
Of course it isn't. Voters don't hold their representatives responsible for getting us into wars. I fail to understand why we reelect the same people to officer who made bad choices and got into things such as the Iraq war.
If people actually looked at what their representatives voted for and then elected someone else when they felt their representative was wrong... instead of along party lines... we might actually have a government that represented the people.
If they were blocking stupidity then they would pass a law to ban straight ticket voting, as it is the PEOPLE not the PARTY that matters. Oh wait, they'd probably lose power then *thumbs up*
Hate to use XKCD as a source, but....
Stimulas Spending
As you can see, only 3% of the stimulus spending seems to have gone into our infrastructure. Most of it went into tax breaks and "other spending". It would be interesting to see what is in that "other spending", but would it be too much to assume that it is likely congressional pet projects?
Personally, I would have given up my tax breaks if we could shove the money into infrastructure instead. It would be nice to not have to duct tape everything together.
a terrorist will get on the plane and, absolutely, positively, undeniably cause that plane to crash into the building that causes the most deaths and financial damage?
But back to the original point: her union didn't do jack to help her. Nothing. Nada. She was a paying member for nearly three decades and the "proper" union provided her no assistance whatsoever.
And that's why I have nothing but disgust for American-style unions. Maybe they're legitimate and useful where you live, but as far as I can tell the ones we have are utterly useless.
You sure? It sounds like she would have been fired from that job long ago if the union hadn't been there to make sure she wasn't. Yeah, she got stuck with shit work (literally), but she was able to keep her job and hit retirement.
I have to agree. A $4 an hour programmer gets a specification and builds it to the letter (mostly). They never try to reuse code, build it to be reused or see how it can be tied into what already exists. My company found that hiring offshore programmers wasn't worth it as it took as much time away from our normal developers to hold their hands and correct their mistakes.
A good developer is more than just a code monkey. They solve problems, they look at how this enhancement might be useful for others as well, they suggest new products that could tie into what is being developed today.
This is marked as insightful? Really?
No one forced a single one of those people to take a loan that they couldn't handle. Your bank is NOT your accountant. It is NOT their job to tell you if you can handle the monthly payments or not. Maybe if those every day people had some financial responsibility in their lives, they wouldn't have defaulted on their loans.
Starz dropped Netflix. They wanted Netflix to charge an additional fee to get Starz content, so that their label would remain "exclusive." Netflix said no
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Sure. I could also just not define my life by having hundreds of "friends" who I had a class with one and talked to twice, but because Facebook matched us, lets pretend to care about the fact that you had bacon for dinner or that you want me to join farmville. Blah. I left facebook because I had to wade through a mountain of crap to find the few interesting or important things. My "zero" friends also migrated with me, as they were sick of doing the same thing.
So it takes me 7 hours to do everything on Facebook that it takes me only 3 minutes to do on Google+? I like the efficiency rating.
That is only because you can't vote for a representative by texting from your mobile phone
Will these Antennae be grown organically and do they produce waste that could be used for bio-fuel?
Hey, this is slashdot. Stop trying to make an argument that makes sense.
May I suggest finding a job at a company that hires actual HR people instead of drones?
Does it rot in the field, providing fertilizer for the next generation of crops and thus reducing the overall costs due to the fact so much artificial fertilizer doesn't need to be used? It isn't waste if it is actually being used for something.
Don't they already believe that on the 3rd day he will rise again?
I disagree. They already have the hard drive. They have a warrant to read what is on the hard drive. What the suspect has basically done is destroy evidence and obstruct justice to prevent officers fulfilling their lawful duties.
If you had evidence in a safe and a device that would incinerate such evidence if you didn't open the safe with the proper pass code, I would also expect them to get a court order to force you to revel the pass code, or at least open the safe. The government shouldn't be forced to break down doors to obtain evidence.
Perhaps Iran should invest in that "paint matching" technology that stores like Lowes or Home Depot has
Of course it isn't. Voters don't hold their representatives responsible for getting us into wars. I fail to understand why we reelect the same people to officer who made bad choices and got into things such as the Iraq war. If people actually looked at what their representatives voted for and then elected someone else when they felt their representative was wrong... instead of along party lines... we might actually have a government that represented the people.
If I have 1000 monkeys in the room writing the works of Shakespeare, is it still devoted to data processing?
If they were blocking stupidity then they would pass a law to ban straight ticket voting, as it is the PEOPLE not the PARTY that matters. Oh wait, they'd probably lose power then *thumbs up*
Hate to use XKCD as a source, but....
Stimulas Spending
As you can see, only 3% of the stimulus spending seems to have gone into our infrastructure. Most of it went into tax breaks and "other spending". It would be interesting to see what is in that "other spending", but would it be too much to assume that it is likely congressional pet projects?
Personally, I would have given up my tax breaks if we could shove the money into infrastructure instead. It would be nice to not have to duct tape everything together.
Hear, hear!
a terrorist will get on the plane and, absolutely, positively, undeniably cause that plane to crash into the building that causes the most deaths and financial damage?
Or light their underpants on fire.......
But back to the original point: her union didn't do jack to help her. Nothing. Nada. She was a paying member for nearly three decades and the "proper" union provided her no assistance whatsoever.
And that's why I have nothing but disgust for American-style unions. Maybe they're legitimate and useful where you live, but as far as I can tell the ones we have are utterly useless.
You sure? It sounds like she would have been fired from that job long ago if the union hadn't been there to make sure she wasn't. Yeah, she got stuck with shit work (literally), but she was able to keep her job and hit retirement.
I have to agree. A $4 an hour programmer gets a specification and builds it to the letter (mostly). They never try to reuse code, build it to be reused or see how it can be tied into what already exists. My company found that hiring offshore programmers wasn't worth it as it took as much time away from our normal developers to hold their hands and correct their mistakes. A good developer is more than just a code monkey. They solve problems, they look at how this enhancement might be useful for others as well, they suggest new products that could tie into what is being developed today.
Yes, because having a President from the great state of Texas stopped America's problem with oil corruption....
Because I'm covered in bees!
While I would agree... after playing Civ IV I have to vote to Leonard Nimoy instead.
According to Wikipedia, neither the Marines or the Navy fly F-16s But yes, nice joke.
This is marked as insightful? Really? No one forced a single one of those people to take a loan that they couldn't handle. Your bank is NOT your accountant. It is NOT their job to tell you if you can handle the monthly payments or not. Maybe if those every day people had some financial responsibility in their lives, they wouldn't have defaulted on their loans.
OR billy can grow a backbone and stand up to the Jock. Usually bullies leave you alone once their prey actually fights back.
Starz dropped Netflix. They wanted Netflix to charge an additional fee to get Starz content, so that their label would remain "exclusive." Netflix said no