Looks to me like 99% of all college students meet quite a few of their espionage indicators.
Here's an idea. How about not passing laws that further disillusion Americans into becoming terrorists? This is like lowering the speed limit to try and stop drag racing.
oh they can be bad too. But I've never had a math or science class where the students just read out of the textbook in class and the homework assignment was to reread those chapters a couple times.
I'm also horrified at the number of my fellow teachers who think the Internet is some magical panacea where they can just plop a class down in front of a computer, tell them 'research topic X' and the kids will actually learn something.
I think for the teachers who equate memorization with education the internet is a panacea.
I'm looking at you social studies/history teachers!
I find it interesting that the same people who wail against sweatshops in Asia and constantly want to raise the minimum wage are the same people that want to allow a slave class with no benefits forced to work long hours for less than minimum wage.
I like the way the wording of the question asks you if it would be worth a million pounds to live in a dystopian world where someone forcibly keeps you from owning a mobile phone your whole life.
I have to imagine the surveyor started the questionnaire with "The year is 2015 and due to nuclear war the Pound is valueless; also you've fallen down a hole where you'll likely die unless you can call someone on a cell phone."
What about nerd sports like chess, poker, and robot battling?
"A sport is a competitive activity where skill, ability , and strategy determine the victor."
football could arguably not qualify
The idea is that in order to get a bill passed in which 45% of the people agree you will add on some things that that you aren't happy about to get the opposition to vote for it.
In practical application though they create a bill that 65%-70% would agree with and then see how many things they can stick on to make their constituents happy or those that give them funding.
Some would argue that items should pass on their own merit. But then how are you ever going to get a $315 million bridge built to an island with a population of 50?
I want it never to be said that we didn't fight for life and living, right up until the end. I wonder who'd say it anyway. Probably the robots we built to help us colonize the galaxy that end up destroying us; while they laugh mechanically.
We never should have installed those irony upgrades.
Going from Australia to LA in less than a day was laughable 100 years ago, much less 10000 years ago I'd say it would have been at least conceivable with the advent of powered flight. Within a few short decades of the Kittyhawk, one could fly (though not directly) from Australia to North America in a few days, and I'm sure even the Nazis realized the long-term repercussions of the development of the jet engine. The kittyhawk was created less than 50 years ago. The Nazi party didn't even begin to form until 1919. the first jet engine that was actually more powerful than a propeller wasn't built until 1937.
Even world war one began just 93 years ago.
I think you have no idea how long 100 years actually is.
80% accuracy? Sounds like she's using the same equation those dentists use when determining if they will endorse toothpaste.
Seriously though, when you are building a model based on known information and results and can only get an 80% accuracy that doesn't impress me. You could probably get 80% accuracy with an by comparing the results of $/soldier+soldiers/(enemy combatants) for both armys.
Because that would be a regressive tax that few would support. Should the guy you drives 100 miles a month have to pay the same amount as the guy who drives 100 miles a day?
Also people hate taxes less when they look small. See how far you get telling the voters you are raising registration 500% but in return are taking a few less pennies from gas.
Well you have to realize you need at least three supervisors on site for each guy actually working. For those supervisors you need to have a commissioner to decide how quickly to raise everyones pay so they can complain they'll have to fire people if they don't get a tax increase. You also need to have secretaries to explain why the commisioner is too busy to take your call and to transfer you to someone else. And of course you need to have some Pr person to get transferred to to let you know that the commissioner is doing all they can to tighten the budget and fight against the other commisioners that are the real problem. Throw in lawyers, janitors, payroll, and expense accounts and you'll see how just filling a pothole can easily cost more then you make in a year.
I think now the smart move as a state would be to switch back to representative electoral college. Especially if your are a stronghold state for some party. That way giving a little face time to a state you can't win in might still result in some votes; ignoring a stronghold state could cost the you also.
If only we had given them an extra billion dollars to add a pebble throwing arm we'd know for sure if it was water.
If humanity is destroyed by some comet a couple of years before terraforming of mars is far enough along to be habitable, then my great-great-great-grandchildren and/or clones are going to be pissed.
Government to SoundExchange: What is this?! Where did you learn to charge these outrageous administrative fees? Was it from all those lawyers I see you hanging around with?
SoundExchange to Government: I learned it from YOU OK! I learned it by watching you *sob*
SoundExchange runs out of the room while Government stares into the distance meaningfully.
As far as I know he didn't personally protest at any funerals. But he was one of only three senators that voted against an act who's sole objective was disallowing protests at military funerals.
Now I'm a big 1st amendment supporter, but I'm also of the belief that one persons freedoms should stop when they directly infringe on the right of someone else. and holding a loud hateful protest at a funeral where people are trying to grieve for their loved one definitely falls under that category.
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Looks to me like 99% of all college students meet quite a few of their espionage indicators.
Here's an idea. How about not passing laws that further disillusion Americans into becoming terrorists?
This is like lowering the speed limit to try and stop drag racing.
oh they can be bad too. But I've never had a math or science class where the students just read out of the textbook in class and the homework assignment was to reread those chapters a couple times.
I think for the teachers who equate memorization with education the internet is a panacea.
I'm looking at you social studies/history teachers!
...and willing to continually commit a felony.
First we need to remove that pesky minimum wage law.
We never should have left the goldbrick standard.
Even if the value of gold dropped to zero, you can still throw a brick of it through a window and take what you want. Try doing THAT with a dollar.
I find it interesting that the same people who wail against sweatshops in Asia and constantly want to raise the minimum wage are the same people that want to allow a slave class with no benefits forced to work long hours for less than minimum wage.
I like the way the wording of the question asks you if it would be worth a million pounds to live in a dystopian world where someone forcibly keeps you from owning a mobile phone your whole life.
I have to imagine the surveyor started the questionnaire with "The year is 2015 and due to nuclear war the Pound is valueless; also you've fallen down a hole where you'll likely die unless you can call someone on a cell phone."
True.
But I think New Yorkers are willing to pay whatever it takes to cut off any ties with the rest of the country.
So you're saying that even knowing someone who owns manhunt can turn you into a killer?
Embedded flash games can easily be copied and saved in firefox... for reference only of course. http://www.cruciallimit.com/blog/?p=20
What about nerd sports like chess, poker, and robot battling? "A sport is a competitive activity where skill, ability , and strategy determine the victor." football could arguably not qualify
The idea is that in order to get a bill passed in which 45% of the people agree you will add on some things that that you aren't happy about to get the opposition to vote for it.
In practical application though they create a bill that 65%-70% would agree with and then see how many things they can stick on to make their constituents happy or those that give them funding.
Some would argue that items should pass on their own merit. But then how are you ever going to get a $315 million bridge built to an island with a population of 50?
We never should have installed those irony upgrades.
Even world war one began just 93 years ago.
I think you have no idea how long 100 years actually is.
correlation != causation
Man, You thought airport security was intrusive before! Wait until they have to crack all your bones to find out what you're hiding.
I think I'll walk from now on.
80% accuracy? Sounds like she's using the same equation those dentists use when determining if they will endorse toothpaste. Seriously though, when you are building a model based on known information and results and can only get an 80% accuracy that doesn't impress me. You could probably get 80% accuracy with an by comparing the results of $/soldier+soldiers/(enemy combatants) for both armys.
Because that would be a regressive tax that few would support. Should the guy you drives 100 miles a month have to pay the same amount as the guy who drives 100 miles a day?
Also people hate taxes less when they look small. See how far you get telling the voters you are raising registration 500% but in return are taking a few less pennies from gas.
Well you have to realize you need at least three supervisors on site for each guy actually working. For those supervisors you need to have a commissioner to decide how quickly to raise everyones pay so they can complain they'll have to fire people if they don't get a tax increase. You also need to have secretaries to explain why the commisioner is too busy to take your call and to transfer you to someone else. And of course you need to have some Pr person to get transferred to to let you know that the commissioner is doing all they can to tighten the budget and fight against the other commisioners that are the real problem. Throw in lawyers, janitors, payroll, and expense accounts and you'll see how just filling a pothole can easily cost more then you make in a year.
Vote Republocrat!
YOU HAVE NO CHOICE!
I think now the smart move as a state would be to switch back to representative electoral college. Especially if your are a stronghold state for some party. That way giving a little face time to a state you can't win in might still result in some votes; ignoring a stronghold state could cost the you also.
If only we had given them an extra billion dollars to add a pebble throwing arm we'd know for sure if it was water.
If humanity is destroyed by some comet a couple of years before terraforming of mars is far enough along to be habitable, then my great-great-great-grandchildren and/or clones are going to be pissed.
Government to SoundExchange: What is this?! Where did you learn to charge these outrageous administrative fees? Was it from all those lawyers I see you hanging around with?
SoundExchange to Government: I learned it from YOU OK! I learned it by watching you *sob*
SoundExchange runs out of the room while Government stares into the distance meaningfully.
As far as I know he didn't personally protest at any funerals. But he was one of only three senators that voted against an act who's sole objective was disallowing protests at military funerals.
Now I'm a big 1st amendment supporter, but I'm also of the belief that one persons freedoms should stop when they directly infringe on the right of someone else. and holding a loud hateful protest at a funeral where people are trying to grieve for their loved one definitely falls under that category.
Workaholics are also quite common and damage families. Maybe the government should ban work?
The only time you should need the government to protect you from yourself is, if a judge has sentenced you to live in a mental asylum.
What you weren't on board with protesting at veterans funerals?
What kind of patriot are you?!