This has nothing to do with left and right. It has to do with the inevitable road to subservience that government control of social policy always leads to.
The recording industry is going bankrupt right now. I doubt it'll even exist in 20 years. They're like a lost explorer trapped in quicksand desperately trying to grab vines that keep snapping.
And you get all the bees into the hive before you put your fancy mesh on it how? You don't. And the ones that didn't get in follow you all the way to where-ever you're taking them. You think bees can't hit 60mph? You're right... they can't, but my estimate is they can hit about 40... you get to a stop light and before it turns green again they catch up and are REALLY pissed.
We do seal the hives before we load them on the truck, the hives are built in such a way that they close completely. Hives aren't the old wooden ones you see in movies anymore, they're made out of a cardboard looking plastic stuff. They've got a flap that closes over and keeps them in.
If there goal was to make a reactor, you're right, those plans would be useless. If their goal were to attack an existing reactor, the plans become a lot more useful.
My family farms cranberries, so I get to haul bees all the time. This doesn't have anything to do with missing honey bees. There are plenty of them where we're at. This is more like "Fertilizing" the bees. Farmers want more than natural usually provides. If they miss a season, it's no big deal. This is just the latest fad in "How to get more yield" In fact, most people near me are using bumble bees, which to my knowledge aren't having the problems honey bees are. Farmers share them around here. One sends his bees over, while you let him borrow a tractor, etc...
also, more accidents hauling bees? Yea... try hauling a couple hundred hives on a flatbed and it becomes obvious why there are so many crashes. They get into the cab... no mater how tight you've got the windows shut. We've taken to wearing bee suits while we drive. Then you have all the other people on the road that seem to drive differently, especially when they are on motorcycles or convertibles, when you pull up next to them with a couple million bees in tow.
yes, no one could possibly stop them, unless they invented some super high tech future machine that could fly and yet still have the incredible power required to destroy a balloon. What nation on earth could ever achieve such a degree of technology? We are most certainly doomed.
The difference between federal student loans and private loans is rather simple. Federal loans are given to people even if they can not afford to pay them back... and you are required to pay them off. The government will get their money back, period. The result is people that are already impoverished, becoming even more impoverished. Now, not only are they poor, the odds are they didn't graduate (most, irrelevant of income, do not) and now they are saddled with huge amounts of debt that they have no legal way out of.
I paid my way through college via a part time job. I didn't go to the best school, but I didn't need to. I think that needs to be the focus of everyones attention. A $200k education isn't 10x the quality of a $20k education.
So Louisiana has copper thieves. I work for a company that deals with this a lot, people just steal our cables and such. Run off with them... that's what we're insured for I guess. But are they REALLY selling the copper for cash? I'd argue they are not. Despite what people would have you believe scrap copper, steel and aluminum is not all that valuable. Sure, if you go to buy any of those metals they're expensive. But what a scrap yard is willing to give you is usually less than 50cents a pound... and if it's clearly stolen? 10 cents? How is that even worth your time?
Now, why would they be stealing it then? The internet has really spread a lot of information that used to be unique to a lot of people that didn't have it before. Metal crafts that used to be trade secrets not many people had access to now have burgeoning online communities. A lot of people are interested in Welding, copper smithing, black smithing, foundry work, Jewlery crafting, mill and lathe work etc... I happen to be one of them.
Now, have you ever tried to buy an iron ingot? Copper ingot? You can't. Period. You can find places online, that are very far away and charge ridiculous prices and crazy shipping charges. But to find Iron, Steel, copper, etc... you first have to find a scrap yard that will let you poke around. These days, not many will. With the decline of our industrial base so has the need for metals and fuel. I, for example, blacksmith as a hobby, and have to travel an hour and a half to pay $20 for a 50lb bag of coal. My other option is to drive 6hrs to a coal depot and pay $80 per ton, min order is 1 ton. since I don't have a semi, that's not an option. If I want steel, I have to go to a scrap yard and buy used engine blocks, cut them up... etc... etc...
OR, I could go and steal some park benches. I believe people are stealing what they can't buy. These hobbies are particularly popular in the middle south, where a lot of these thefts are going on.
You obviously haven't been involved in enterprise level purchases before. It may seem silly to your average techy but the people buying this equipment need someone to blame when it fails. If you're the head of IS in your company and the little server your suggesting goes down for 24hrs because of some obscure hardware incompatibility, what are you going to say? You built it, you maintained it, now the company has 50 people that sat at their desks pointlessly for 8hrs while you dicked around with drivers. You'll be out the door before the end of the day, irrelevant of weather it's your fault or not. It HAS to be someones fault, and without a service contract, that someone is you.
Now you go with one of these pre-packaged deals and a service contract... the VP comes down "So what's up with the servers?" and you can say "I've got a ticket open with QNAP, they're next-day airing us a replacement." and the VP says "Well good, at least it's they're on top of things." Never mind that it didn't get fixed any faster. As far as the person responsible for the purchase is concerned they have someone else to blame and upper managed "Feels" like things are under control.
You can bet the NSA's iOS app can interact with Siri.
Isn't it great your phone, that you never turn off, can be turned on remotely by your carrier... who has shown multiple times they're willing to hand over whatever info the government wants with or without legal cause, can now listen to and understand not only what you say but your intent, and send this information as pain text to whomever the phone, app, apple, or carrier cares to send it?
That's $1billion less per year our government can use to invade other countries, assassinate US citizens, build networks and software that monitor it's citizenry. The idea that it's wrong to avoid giving people that barely qualify as "elected" officials billions of dollars to waste, or spend on countless immoral and corrupt programs is just silly. If there's a legal way to get out of paying taxes, it's your patriotic duty to do it.
They shouldn't. But what they are really doing is price manipulation. They sell in the US first, then in Europe 6 months later. Then complain when a 3rd party buys up the goods in the US and resells them in Europe or vice versa. To the point that they actually cripple their devices so only certain media will work on them.
"We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms of civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become" and "The needs of society must come before the needs of the individual" -- Benito Mussolini
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This has nothing to do with left and right. It has to do with the inevitable road to subservience that government control of social policy always leads to.
The recording industry is going bankrupt right now. I doubt it'll even exist in 20 years. They're like a lost explorer trapped in quicksand desperately trying to grab vines that keep snapping.
And you get all the bees into the hive before you put your fancy mesh on it how? You don't. And the ones that didn't get in follow you all the way to where-ever you're taking them. You think bees can't hit 60mph? You're right... they can't, but my estimate is they can hit about 40... you get to a stop light and before it turns green again they catch up and are REALLY pissed.
We do seal the hives before we load them on the truck, the hives are built in such a way that they close completely. Hives aren't the old wooden ones you see in movies anymore, they're made out of a cardboard looking plastic stuff. They've got a flap that closes over and keeps them in.
If there goal was to make a reactor, you're right, those plans would be useless. If their goal were to attack an existing reactor, the plans become a lot more useful.
My family farms cranberries, so I get to haul bees all the time. This doesn't have anything to do with missing honey bees. There are plenty of them where we're at. This is more like "Fertilizing" the bees. Farmers want more than natural usually provides. If they miss a season, it's no big deal. This is just the latest fad in "How to get more yield" In fact, most people near me are using bumble bees, which to my knowledge aren't having the problems honey bees are. Farmers share them around here. One sends his bees over, while you let him borrow a tractor, etc...
also, more accidents hauling bees? Yea... try hauling a couple hundred hives on a flatbed and it becomes obvious why there are so many crashes. They get into the cab... no mater how tight you've got the windows shut. We've taken to wearing bee suits while we drive. Then you have all the other people on the road that seem to drive differently, especially when they are on motorcycles or convertibles, when you pull up next to them with a couple million bees in tow.
yes, no one could possibly stop them, unless they invented some super high tech future machine that could fly and yet still have the incredible power required to destroy a balloon. What nation on earth could ever achieve such a degree of technology? We are most certainly doomed.
What could possibly go wrong?
The difference between federal student loans and private loans is rather simple. Federal loans are given to people even if they can not afford to pay them back... and you are required to pay them off. The government will get their money back, period. The result is people that are already impoverished, becoming even more impoverished. Now, not only are they poor, the odds are they didn't graduate (most, irrelevant of income, do not) and now they are saddled with huge amounts of debt that they have no legal way out of.
I paid my way through college via a part time job. I didn't go to the best school, but I didn't need to. I think that needs to be the focus of everyones attention. A $200k education isn't 10x the quality of a $20k education.
Isn't there a helium shortage?
Cellphone subscribers prior to 1995? Doesn't that throw their study off a tad?
you're quoting what the scrapyard gets. What they give to some schmuck in a pickup is entirely different.
Give Microsoft time to stick some horribly designed bells and whistles on to destroy any performance gains you're seeing now.
So Louisiana has copper thieves. I work for a company that deals with this a lot, people just steal our cables and such. Run off with them... that's what we're insured for I guess. But are they REALLY selling the copper for cash? I'd argue they are not. Despite what people would have you believe scrap copper, steel and aluminum is not all that valuable. Sure, if you go to buy any of those metals they're expensive. But what a scrap yard is willing to give you is usually less than 50cents a pound... and if it's clearly stolen? 10 cents? How is that even worth your time?
Now, why would they be stealing it then? The internet has really spread a lot of information that used to be unique to a lot of people that didn't have it before. Metal crafts that used to be trade secrets not many people had access to now have burgeoning online communities. A lot of people are interested in Welding, copper smithing, black smithing, foundry work, Jewlery crafting, mill and lathe work etc... I happen to be one of them.
Now, have you ever tried to buy an iron ingot? Copper ingot? You can't. Period. You can find places online, that are very far away and charge ridiculous prices and crazy shipping charges. But to find Iron, Steel, copper, etc... you first have to find a scrap yard that will let you poke around. These days, not many will. With the decline of our industrial base so has the need for metals and fuel. I, for example, blacksmith as a hobby, and have to travel an hour and a half to pay $20 for a 50lb bag of coal. My other option is to drive 6hrs to a coal depot and pay $80 per ton, min order is 1 ton. since I don't have a semi, that's not an option. If I want steel, I have to go to a scrap yard and buy used engine blocks, cut them up... etc... etc...
OR, I could go and steal some park benches. I believe people are stealing what they can't buy. These hobbies are particularly popular in the middle south, where a lot of these thefts are going on.
You obviously haven't been involved in enterprise level purchases before. It may seem silly to your average techy but the people buying this equipment need someone to blame when it fails. If you're the head of IS in your company and the little server your suggesting goes down for 24hrs because of some obscure hardware incompatibility, what are you going to say? You built it, you maintained it, now the company has 50 people that sat at their desks pointlessly for 8hrs while you dicked around with drivers. You'll be out the door before the end of the day, irrelevant of weather it's your fault or not. It HAS to be someones fault, and without a service contract, that someone is you.
Now you go with one of these pre-packaged deals and a service contract... the VP comes down "So what's up with the servers?" and you can say "I've got a ticket open with QNAP, they're next-day airing us a replacement." and the VP says "Well good, at least it's they're on top of things." Never mind that it didn't get fixed any faster. As far as the person responsible for the purchase is concerned they have someone else to blame and upper managed "Feels" like things are under control.
You can bet the NSA's iOS app can interact with Siri.
Isn't it great your phone, that you never turn off, can be turned on remotely by your carrier... who has shown multiple times they're willing to hand over whatever info the government wants with or without legal cause, can now listen to and understand not only what you say but your intent, and send this information as pain text to whomever the phone, app, apple, or carrier cares to send it?
What's the point? You think Electric = fuel efficient? If you do, I think you're the one missing the point.
How many Kilos of coke does one cost?
This is why you make your findings public. Stupid companies like this deserve the result.
They could fire these at protesters!
That's $1billion less per year our government can use to invade other countries, assassinate US citizens, build networks and software that monitor it's citizenry. The idea that it's wrong to avoid giving people that barely qualify as "elected" officials billions of dollars to waste, or spend on countless immoral and corrupt programs is just silly. If there's a legal way to get out of paying taxes, it's your patriotic duty to do it.
No, they're not.
it's no different than claiming a photo of me is facebooks intellectual property. New format, same old argument.
They shouldn't. But what they are really doing is price manipulation. They sell in the US first, then in Europe 6 months later. Then complain when a 3rd party buys up the goods in the US and resells them in Europe or vice versa. To the point that they actually cripple their devices so only certain media will work on them.
"We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms of civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become" and "The needs of society must come before the needs of the individual" -- Benito Mussolini
Yes, they're hemorrhaging. They've dropped from capturing 54% of the mmo market down to a measly 52% Whatever shall they do.