Google thinks I'm a 20 year old male. I'm in my early thirties and a gal. I think visiting Slashdot so much throws off its algorithm, as does all the video game sites I hang out at. You'd think the searches for things like "gel nails" might tip them off, but it's probably further confused by my lack of visits to Pinterest.
I'd be interested to see if this program can do any better at analyzing my writing than Google does analyzing my search history.
A good summer camp plans for all contingencies, and spending a quiet day working on tech stuff is a good option during a downpour. Save the hiking and backpacking for when it's sunny whenever possible.
If you didn't want to live under the rule of HOA, you could have just not bought a house in a neighborhood that had such an agreement. When we went house shopping, that was one of our biggest requirements, right underneath our price range. (It even beat out location!)
And as a lifelong Democrat, I think you're a bit too uptight. For me this issue hasn't got anything to do with the drugs themselves, it's got to do with families being ripped apart, overcrowded jails in which addicts are put alongside murderers, and a society which treats the illnesses underlying addictions as a stigma instead of a sickness. It's the same attitude that blames mentally ill patients for their diseases. You don't go around blaming men with prostate cancer for having the lack of willpower to prevent their own cells for dividing improperly, do you?
I believe that very issue is under review right now, in fact. Schedule I drugs are considered to have no medical value. Schedule II drugs have medical value, but are so prone to abuse that the FDA believes they should be regulated. Schedule I is regulated at the national level. Schedule II is regulated at the state level. Twenty years of medical research has been presented to the FDA board showing that marijuana has legit medical uses and should, by all rights, be considered a Schedule II drug.
I think that's another reason Obama is not being very specific on this issue - if the FDA makes it schedule II in the next few months, the Feds will basically have no reason to poke their nose into state business any more. Hence, making it a lower priority now, in case it needs to become a zero priority later.
He has power, but it has to be carefully used and applied. At this point, he's putting all his political capital and power of the bully puppet into trying to keep the tax cut on income lower than $250K in place while letting the taxes for income above $250K go up. If he fought the battle on all fronts at the same time, he wouldn't win anything.
He can't definitely say "I'm not wasting federal resources and money on that shit" because it's still officially illegal at the federal level, and the President is constitutionally bound to follow the laws established by Congress. Congress itself has to make marijuana legal. The executive branch can, however, determine how to prioritize its use of resources, and Obama basically just said he's more worried about actual threats to the country than someone getting high on the couch.
In other words, if you want pot legal nationwide, you need to write to your Congresscritters about it.
That sounds more like something from a neighborhood association, in fact. That's not even government, that's the private community being jerks about something.
50 employees to keep an established game running? As long as you're only providing basic tech support and not doing any new development, you can run a game with ten people.
You can't shut down your cash cow just because you're banking on your shiny new toy. What if the new toy flops? If SE had shut down FFXI prior to the diasastrous launch of FFXIV 1.0, the company would have gone bankrupt. All that time, the revenue from XI kept them afloat.
If CoH was bringing in profit, however small it was, then there was no good reason to shut it down, no matter what "strategy" they're trying to go for. You can't push players from one game to another - MMOs don't work like that. They'll play both or none at all, and neither game has little bearing on which one that is.
Not everyone is qualified to take the injectable ones. Girls who are properly educated on how to handle oral contraceptives can handle them just fine. And for me, this isn't even a matter of everyone on public assistance - every single girl should be given a thorough education on birth control and given the option to go on it from 14 years and older. Modern US sex education is full of fail, because of this stupid misbelief that if we talk candidly about sex with teenagers, they'll be more eager to go out and try it.
This assumes that your children don't hate and despise you and that you live a long and prosperous life. My eldest sister hated our parents (well, she hates everyone) and after she had her baby and then got divorced a year later because she then hated her husband, her daughter suddenly had no grandparents to visit because she had cut herself off from everyone. I feel very sorry for my niece, who did nothing to deserve someone as spiteful as my sister for a mother, but I cannot do anything since we are not on speaking terms.
Actually, your meal McDonald's meal is government subsidized, via the Farm Bill. The French Fries all come from US grown potatoes. The wheat for the burgers is made from US grown grain. The beef is made from a factory cattle farm. The cheese product came from Wisconsin. All receive generous subsidies from the government to keep farming in the US, under the control of USDA. (Likely, the lettuce and tomato was imported from Mexico, because our subsidies are skewed toward grains and meats.) This in turn means that McDonald's can pay low prices for the ingredients, and this reflects on lower prices on your meal.
I think this is a good attitude. I feel sorry for people who had their kids out of a sense of obligation, because they felt it was what they were expected to do. They seem to be unhappy with themselves, their spouses, their kids, and their lives. Then there's my coworker, who has two young boys and his world revolves around them. His eyes light up any time he talks about them. He is like you - born to be a father.
Novelist friend disagrees. She ranks the day she was signed on for her first trilogy one notch above the birth of her son. (To be fair, she had full blown eclampsia and was in a coma during her C-section, so she doesn't actually remember that night.)
My husband and I agreed not to have kids. By all rights we're in the sweet spot for it - young professionals, good careers ahead, own our house, etc. But.... I just don't see the need for it. We have his nieces and nephew any time we get the urge to play with kids or hold a baby. We have tons of friends with kids who are super glad to have us watch their rugrats for a night.
And let's not get into how expensive children are, or how hostile work environments are to parents of either sex (but especially women.) I believe both parents deserve equal maternity/paternity leave and for a far longer period than most employers are willing to give them. We'd have to both be comfortably working from home to even consider it.
So, we're not quite the couple in the beginning of Idiocracy, but we're close enough.
People like my husband, who not only want one device that does everything, but also want something as powerful as their current desktop replacement laptops. He's aiming to get a Surface Pro when his laptop kicks the bucket (likely to happen in the next six months since it just rolled over the five year old mark.) He thinks my Kindle is cute but useless for anything but reading, my cheap laptop is too weak for any of his serious work, my smart phone is annoying, and my server class workstation is non portable so it's right out of the equation.
Unfortunately, some of the more abusive low level employers still require a doctor's note anyway. One notorious telemarketing company in my town almost didn't give a dude his sick days because he didn't call in every day he was sick - the guy was in the hospital. It was only when the guy got the hospital itself off that they grudgingly gave him his time.
Compare this to my current office, where if you so much as sneeze the boss looks at you with narrowed eyes and asks if you'd rather telecommute that day, rather than risk infecting the entire office.
The wiki article brings up an interesting point - no one has "proven" eidetic memory, but how can you test another person's internal visual screen (aside from the rudimentary imaging studies done with MRI images recently)? The article also points out that eidetic not only refers to visual memory, but to other senses, and it is at this point that many musicians will dispute a skeptic's claim - we can not only hum along to a song with the full orchestral going along in our minds, but also remember the notes on the page completely along with the internal music track. The heat of the stage lamps, the sharp smell of violin rosin... If anything, multiple sensory input is probably required for a true eidetic memory, so of course it can't be proven if someone is only testing one sense!
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It's the acronym for the degree program - Master of Internet Technology.
See, that's where the Google algorithm programmers got lazy. They assume that too.
Google thinks I'm a 20 year old male. I'm in my early thirties and a gal. I think visiting Slashdot so much throws off its algorithm, as does all the video game sites I hang out at. You'd think the searches for things like "gel nails" might tip them off, but it's probably further confused by my lack of visits to Pinterest.
I'd be interested to see if this program can do any better at analyzing my writing than Google does analyzing my search history.
A good summer camp plans for all contingencies, and spending a quiet day working on tech stuff is a good option during a downpour. Save the hiking and backpacking for when it's sunny whenever possible.
If you didn't want to live under the rule of HOA, you could have just not bought a house in a neighborhood that had such an agreement. When we went house shopping, that was one of our biggest requirements, right underneath our price range. (It even beat out location!)
Because in the UK, a lot of the bill isn't funded by the student, it's funded by the taxpayers.
And as a lifelong Democrat, I think you're a bit too uptight. For me this issue hasn't got anything to do with the drugs themselves, it's got to do with families being ripped apart, overcrowded jails in which addicts are put alongside murderers, and a society which treats the illnesses underlying addictions as a stigma instead of a sickness. It's the same attitude that blames mentally ill patients for their diseases. You don't go around blaming men with prostate cancer for having the lack of willpower to prevent their own cells for dividing improperly, do you?
Funny, no one ever apologized for Bush, except to other countries.
I believe that very issue is under review right now, in fact. Schedule I drugs are considered to have no medical value. Schedule II drugs have medical value, but are so prone to abuse that the FDA believes they should be regulated. Schedule I is regulated at the national level. Schedule II is regulated at the state level. Twenty years of medical research has been presented to the FDA board showing that marijuana has legit medical uses and should, by all rights, be considered a Schedule II drug.
I think that's another reason Obama is not being very specific on this issue - if the FDA makes it schedule II in the next few months, the Feds will basically have no reason to poke their nose into state business any more. Hence, making it a lower priority now, in case it needs to become a zero priority later.
He has power, but it has to be carefully used and applied. At this point, he's putting all his political capital and power of the bully puppet into trying to keep the tax cut on income lower than $250K in place while letting the taxes for income above $250K go up. If he fought the battle on all fronts at the same time, he wouldn't win anything.
He can't definitely say "I'm not wasting federal resources and money on that shit" because it's still officially illegal at the federal level, and the President is constitutionally bound to follow the laws established by Congress. Congress itself has to make marijuana legal. The executive branch can, however, determine how to prioritize its use of resources, and Obama basically just said he's more worried about actual threats to the country than someone getting high on the couch.
In other words, if you want pot legal nationwide, you need to write to your Congresscritters about it.
That sounds more like something from a neighborhood association, in fact. That's not even government, that's the private community being jerks about something.
Ah, now there's an answer. It's not "strategic" - it's a personnel issue. That makes a lot more sense.
50 employees to keep an established game running? As long as you're only providing basic tech support and not doing any new development, you can run a game with ten people.
You can't shut down your cash cow just because you're banking on your shiny new toy. What if the new toy flops? If SE had shut down FFXI prior to the diasastrous launch of FFXIV 1.0, the company would have gone bankrupt. All that time, the revenue from XI kept them afloat.
If CoH was bringing in profit, however small it was, then there was no good reason to shut it down, no matter what "strategy" they're trying to go for. You can't push players from one game to another - MMOs don't work like that. They'll play both or none at all, and neither game has little bearing on which one that is.
Not everyone is qualified to take the injectable ones. Girls who are properly educated on how to handle oral contraceptives can handle them just fine. And for me, this isn't even a matter of everyone on public assistance - every single girl should be given a thorough education on birth control and given the option to go on it from 14 years and older. Modern US sex education is full of fail, because of this stupid misbelief that if we talk candidly about sex with teenagers, they'll be more eager to go out and try it.
This assumes that your children don't hate and despise you and that you live a long and prosperous life. My eldest sister hated our parents (well, she hates everyone) and after she had her baby and then got divorced a year later because she then hated her husband, her daughter suddenly had no grandparents to visit because she had cut herself off from everyone. I feel very sorry for my niece, who did nothing to deserve someone as spiteful as my sister for a mother, but I cannot do anything since we are not on speaking terms.
Actually, your meal McDonald's meal is government subsidized, via the Farm Bill. The French Fries all come from US grown potatoes. The wheat for the burgers is made from US grown grain. The beef is made from a factory cattle farm. The cheese product came from Wisconsin. All receive generous subsidies from the government to keep farming in the US, under the control of USDA. (Likely, the lettuce and tomato was imported from Mexico, because our subsidies are skewed toward grains and meats.) This in turn means that McDonald's can pay low prices for the ingredients, and this reflects on lower prices on your meal.
Oh, right, I forgot that the anon cretins still believe the myth that there are no girls on the Internet.
I think this is a good attitude. I feel sorry for people who had their kids out of a sense of obligation, because they felt it was what they were expected to do. They seem to be unhappy with themselves, their spouses, their kids, and their lives. Then there's my coworker, who has two young boys and his world revolves around them. His eyes light up any time he talks about them. He is like you - born to be a father.
Novelist friend disagrees. She ranks the day she was signed on for her first trilogy one notch above the birth of her son. (To be fair, she had full blown eclampsia and was in a coma during her C-section, so she doesn't actually remember that night.)
My husband and I agreed not to have kids. By all rights we're in the sweet spot for it - young professionals, good careers ahead, own our house, etc. But.... I just don't see the need for it. We have his nieces and nephew any time we get the urge to play with kids or hold a baby. We have tons of friends with kids who are super glad to have us watch their rugrats for a night.
And let's not get into how expensive children are, or how hostile work environments are to parents of either sex (but especially women.) I believe both parents deserve equal maternity/paternity leave and for a far longer period than most employers are willing to give them. We'd have to both be comfortably working from home to even consider it.
So, we're not quite the couple in the beginning of Idiocracy, but we're close enough.
People like my husband, who not only want one device that does everything, but also want something as powerful as their current desktop replacement laptops. He's aiming to get a Surface Pro when his laptop kicks the bucket (likely to happen in the next six months since it just rolled over the five year old mark.) He thinks my Kindle is cute but useless for anything but reading, my cheap laptop is too weak for any of his serious work, my smart phone is annoying, and my server class workstation is non portable so it's right out of the equation.
Unfortunately, some of the more abusive low level employers still require a doctor's note anyway. One notorious telemarketing company in my town almost didn't give a dude his sick days because he didn't call in every day he was sick - the guy was in the hospital. It was only when the guy got the hospital itself off that they grudgingly gave him his time.
Compare this to my current office, where if you so much as sneeze the boss looks at you with narrowed eyes and asks if you'd rather telecommute that day, rather than risk infecting the entire office.
The wiki article brings up an interesting point - no one has "proven" eidetic memory, but how can you test another person's internal visual screen (aside from the rudimentary imaging studies done with MRI images recently)? The article also points out that eidetic not only refers to visual memory, but to other senses, and it is at this point that many musicians will dispute a skeptic's claim - we can not only hum along to a song with the full orchestral going along in our minds, but also remember the notes on the page completely along with the internal music track. The heat of the stage lamps, the sharp smell of violin rosin... If anything, multiple sensory input is probably required for a true eidetic memory, so of course it can't be proven if someone is only testing one sense!