Ya the whole cultural appropriation thing is stupid. But don't blame a whole group on it. For every screwed up wacko liberal out there that cares about this, there's a screwed up wacko conservative with something nutty on the agenda.
Remember, people in high school and college have their idealism meter set to 11. Especially in college this is their chance to invent a new persona that's not based on their parents, listen to new music, think about new ideas, meet people totally different than any you've ever seen before, and so on. This is all normal, don't fret too much about it, you'll get more mileage in your disapproval if you just roll your eyes and move on. Many of the more silly ideas in college get toned down as the person gets older and sees more of the real world and realizes that there are larger problems and concerns.
The thing is, almost immediately after introduction, people started coming out with better role playing game systems. I'm surprised that the class and level based system is still so dominant over point based and more free form systems.
I think just covering expenses would go a long way towards helping things out, it doesn't really need to a be "paid" position. Ie, reimburse for plane flights, hotel costs, conference fees. It starts to get problematic if the payment is for "time" though especially if no one else is being paid for time. Debian would lose a lot of its distinctiveness if it went with a CEO model or the like.
The whole thing of neighborhood names is a bit foreign to me. Only in large established cities do they really exist, everywhere else an official neighborhood name is based upon the housing development that started it, and most residents don't know it. It's more convenient to tell others that you live by such-and-such park, or in the south west of some freeway, or near the intersection of A and B. If anyone said "I live in Fruit Belt" it would just cause head scratching.
Getting that money first is hard. In the 1970s there weren't a lot of rich men who thought it was a good idea to throw money at a startup business, they wanted to see something first unlike today. But catch-22 you needed money to show that you could make money. For example, Apple got some early money from an investor, but only after they already had a product.
Yes, people often forget the starting money one needs. Today I think a lot of younger people just assume that you go talk to a VNC guy and you get a couple million and then go shopping for a prestigious office location. That's a new phenomena though, if you were Bill Gates and you wanted some office space for you and your other buddies to hack on computers, you needed cash.
Later in the 90s and even early 2000s, founders of startups very often had to foot much of the early costs which often meant mortgaging the family home (and a divorce if the business didn't work out). Venture capital was rarer and they paid a lot more due diligence to having a solid and feasible business plan.
I remember in the 70s the thing I really really wanted was a computer. Even the cheapest micro was out of my budget as a high school student. Hobbies are damned expensive.
Also, people with much more in the way of business skills did not get as rich as Bill Gates. The amount of luck involved with Bill Gates is so huge it dwarfs the amount of skills involved. Right place, right time, just barely enough skill to pull it off. Had IBM not been looking for a version of DOS at that time, Microsoft would essentially be in the same boat as the hundreds of other small microcomputer businesses.
Also just look at most startups. Often a very dumb idea gets rewarded, not because of skill but because the venture capitalists were making long shot bids without first determining viability. For every Theranos that gets caught there are a hundred more that don't and who later get bought out (and the subsidiary later shut down) or the founders cash out and leave before being caught. Sometimes the startup founders had merit, but I have seen cases where they were also incompetent but managed to fake it long enough to get the payout; no technical know-how, no business acumen, the only skill they had was in schmoozing the right people.
There is no evidence except for Trump's mouth that Hillary's compaign staff started this. There was some Hillary supporters who pushed this, but that doesn't mean campaign staff and certainly does not mean Hillary herself. The birther conspiracy was a minor issue and completely done with and forgotten about when Trump resurrected this in 2011 and became the primary cheerleader for the birther conspiracy until he ran again for president. Trump was the one who kept showing up on news shows and talk shows pushing the conspiracy. He can't just apologize by blaming Hillary for this.
Most of the water used in California comes from snowpack. Rains in the Bay Area or Los Angeles don't help the big picture. The dams don't help as much as they could and they're very difficult to construct and maintain in the long run. Better bet, which angers the pro-dam farmers, is to fix the broken water allocation system in which a few people and institutions have rights to the majority of the water and everyone has to fight over what's left. Some of these water rights came into existence back when Spain owned the state.
Enron owned a company called Azurix that was trying to do this in California. It was controversial since the goal was profit: they'd pump in water in good years and then sell it back to everyone in dry years, never mind that they didn't actually own the entirety of the aquifers but just the parts that their pumps were over. Same rent-seeking business model that Enron had for electricity. The locals were highly opposed to it and I remember lots of anti Azurix billboards in the central valley.
Not plenty of water. One year being drought free doesn't mean we can all go back to drenching the lawns like they were rice paddies and taking two hour showers.
The fact that choosing a third candidate is guaranteed to make your vote worthless implies that we don't have a democracy. Also proof that we don't have a democracy is that in Texas and California we're constantly being told that our votes count for nothing in the presidential race despite being the two largest electorates.
They just need to pay attention this time. Last time in the secret cabal it was more like "I don't have any friends who hate Hillary, how about you guys? No? Ok, let's nominate her since we all think she's likeable and she's certainly more moderate than Bernie."
Wow, nut job anti-American weirdo is the calling card of the last Republican primary. Everyone these days is anti-American, they're all pro one half of all Americans and anti the other half of Americans.
Remember that Trump reset the bar to the presidency very low. Trump didn't do much on his own except manage to go bankrupt in the casino business, which I gather is very difficult to do. He's mostlly just a self promoter ex reality tv star with a penchant for making one-sided deals (he doesn't think it's a good deal if both sides come out ahead). He had zero experience in politics besides inventing the birther conspiracy and some earlier short-lived presidential campaigns (mostly self promotion).
So the current state of affairs is that you no longer need to do anything to be worthy of being president in order to become president. Even further, actually having some political experience is likely to be considered a negative factor!
They shifted to streaming because cable prices were too high. The "status quo" is to stick with cable and keep doing what they tell you to do. People who dropped cable and went to streaming were breaking free of the status quo, no matter what their reason was.
If everyone really just accepts the status quo, then streaming television would never have gotten off the ground and the cord cutters would be a very tiny minority.
Almost the entirety of coal mined in New Mexico is exported to other states and countries. New Mexico does not need coal for energy, what it is losing by getting rid of coal are royalties given to the state. Now it may be argued whether giving up the royalties is good or bad, but that's a better argument than lying about skyrocketing energy costs.
I believe you mean "whale oil". Also note that major health problem skyrocketed because of fossil fuels. Of course other health problems went down because of better medicine, and that has the major effect on life expectancy.
I have to laugh, because Youtube very often insists on showing you ads before you can watch a movie preview. But a movie preview is just an advertisement itself. So Youtube insists on showing you ads before you can see other ads!
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Ya the whole cultural appropriation thing is stupid. But don't blame a whole group on it. For every screwed up wacko liberal out there that cares about this, there's a screwed up wacko conservative with something nutty on the agenda.
Remember, people in high school and college have their idealism meter set to 11. Especially in college this is their chance to invent a new persona that's not based on their parents, listen to new music, think about new ideas, meet people totally different than any you've ever seen before, and so on. This is all normal, don't fret too much about it, you'll get more mileage in your disapproval if you just roll your eyes and move on. Many of the more silly ideas in college get toned down as the person gets older and sees more of the real world and realizes that there are larger problems and concerns.
The thing is, almost immediately after introduction, people started coming out with better role playing game systems. I'm surprised that the class and level based system is still so dominant over point based and more free form systems.
The 5 also self-identify as 9 different minority groups.
I think just covering expenses would go a long way towards helping things out, it doesn't really need to a be "paid" position. Ie, reimburse for plane flights, hotel costs, conference fees. It starts to get problematic if the payment is for "time" though especially if no one else is being paid for time. Debian would lose a lot of its distinctiveness if it went with a CEO model or the like.
The whole thing of neighborhood names is a bit foreign to me. Only in large established cities do they really exist, everywhere else an official neighborhood name is based upon the housing development that started it, and most residents don't know it. It's more convenient to tell others that you live by such-and-such park, or in the south west of some freeway, or near the intersection of A and B. If anyone said "I live in Fruit Belt" it would just cause head scratching.
Getting that money first is hard. In the 1970s there weren't a lot of rich men who thought it was a good idea to throw money at a startup business, they wanted to see something first unlike today. But catch-22 you needed money to show that you could make money. For example, Apple got some early money from an investor, but only after they already had a product.
Yes, people often forget the starting money one needs. Today I think a lot of younger people just assume that you go talk to a VNC guy and you get a couple million and then go shopping for a prestigious office location. That's a new phenomena though, if you were Bill Gates and you wanted some office space for you and your other buddies to hack on computers, you needed cash.
Later in the 90s and even early 2000s, founders of startups very often had to foot much of the early costs which often meant mortgaging the family home (and a divorce if the business didn't work out). Venture capital was rarer and they paid a lot more due diligence to having a solid and feasible business plan.
I remember in the 70s the thing I really really wanted was a computer. Even the cheapest micro was out of my budget as a high school student. Hobbies are damned expensive.
Also, people with much more in the way of business skills did not get as rich as Bill Gates. The amount of luck involved with Bill Gates is so huge it dwarfs the amount of skills involved. Right place, right time, just barely enough skill to pull it off. Had IBM not been looking for a version of DOS at that time, Microsoft would essentially be in the same boat as the hundreds of other small microcomputer businesses.
Also just look at most startups. Often a very dumb idea gets rewarded, not because of skill but because the venture capitalists were making long shot bids without first determining viability. For every Theranos that gets caught there are a hundred more that don't and who later get bought out (and the subsidiary later shut down) or the founders cash out and leave before being caught. Sometimes the startup founders had merit, but I have seen cases where they were also incompetent but managed to fake it long enough to get the payout; no technical know-how, no business acumen, the only skill they had was in schmoozing the right people.
There is no evidence except for Trump's mouth that Hillary's compaign staff started this. There was some Hillary supporters who pushed this, but that doesn't mean campaign staff and certainly does not mean Hillary herself. The birther conspiracy was a minor issue and completely done with and forgotten about when Trump resurrected this in 2011 and became the primary cheerleader for the birther conspiracy until he ran again for president. Trump was the one who kept showing up on news shows and talk shows pushing the conspiracy. He can't just apologize by blaming Hillary for this.
Most of the water used in California comes from snowpack. Rains in the Bay Area or Los Angeles don't help the big picture. The dams don't help as much as they could and they're very difficult to construct and maintain in the long run. Better bet, which angers the pro-dam farmers, is to fix the broken water allocation system in which a few people and institutions have rights to the majority of the water and everyone has to fight over what's left. Some of these water rights came into existence back when Spain owned the state.
Enron owned a company called Azurix that was trying to do this in California. It was controversial since the goal was profit: they'd pump in water in good years and then sell it back to everyone in dry years, never mind that they didn't actually own the entirety of the aquifers but just the parts that their pumps were over. Same rent-seeking business model that Enron had for electricity. The locals were highly opposed to it and I remember lots of anti Azurix billboards in the central valley.
Not plenty of water. One year being drought free doesn't mean we can all go back to drenching the lawns like they were rice paddies and taking two hour showers.
In Finland they rake their water reservoirs so they don't have these sorts of problems.
The fact that choosing a third candidate is guaranteed to make your vote worthless implies that we don't have a democracy. Also proof that we don't have a democracy is that in Texas and California we're constantly being told that our votes count for nothing in the presidential race despite being the two largest electorates.
They just need to pay attention this time. Last time in the secret cabal it was more like "I don't have any friends who hate Hillary, how about you guys? No? Ok, let's nominate her since we all think she's likeable and she's certainly more moderate than Bernie."
I tried to go back in time and prevent the Dewey presidency, but look where that left us!
Wow, nut job anti-American weirdo is the calling card of the last Republican primary. Everyone these days is anti-American, they're all pro one half of all Americans and anti the other half of Americans.
Remember that Trump reset the bar to the presidency very low. Trump didn't do much on his own except manage to go bankrupt in the casino business, which I gather is very difficult to do. He's mostlly just a self promoter ex reality tv star with a penchant for making one-sided deals (he doesn't think it's a good deal if both sides come out ahead). He had zero experience in politics besides inventing the birther conspiracy and some earlier short-lived presidential campaigns (mostly self promotion).
So the current state of affairs is that you no longer need to do anything to be worthy of being president in order to become president. Even further, actually having some political experience is likely to be considered a negative factor!
They shifted to streaming because cable prices were too high. The "status quo" is to stick with cable and keep doing what they tell you to do. People who dropped cable and went to streaming were breaking free of the status quo, no matter what their reason was.
It does w/o adblock.
If everyone really just accepts the status quo, then streaming television would never have gotten off the ground and the cord cutters would be a very tiny minority.
New Mexico already does not use the coal it mines, almost all of it is exported.
Almost the entirety of coal mined in New Mexico is exported to other states and countries. New Mexico does not need coal for energy, what it is losing by getting rid of coal are royalties given to the state. Now it may be argued whether giving up the royalties is good or bad, but that's a better argument than lying about skyrocketing energy costs.
I believe you mean "whale oil". Also note that major health problem skyrocketed because of fossil fuels. Of course other health problems went down because of better medicine, and that has the major effect on life expectancy.
I have to laugh, because Youtube very often insists on showing you ads before you can watch a movie preview. But a movie preview is just an advertisement itself. So Youtube insists on showing you ads before you can see other ads!