I cause problems? I have voted for representatives from every party, because I vote for people and issues, not parties. I hate both major parties, in fact.
Whoever shoots down the PATRIOT Act I would probably vote for. The fact is that the Democrats wishy-washed their brief majority and that directly led to their failure in the next election. They completely pissed away their momentum, and the disillusioned base didn't turn out for them as a consequence.
And you still try to paint this as one-sided. Did you miss the part about how Democrats played an active role in the establishment of the agency in question? Democrats were pretty willing partners in just about everything for the first few years after 9/11. And let me tell you, fear of Fox News backlash is a bullshit excuse. If you have principles, you should stand for them. It's better to be a martyr than to collude with authoritarian douchebags just to keep your job. That's how every government crime against humanity has ever been achieved.
Tracks are routinely inspected by both LEAs and railroad companies. Many natural and malicious threats to rail operations are discovered and negated by these inspections all the time. Rail might be a relatively soft target, but it's not as neglected as you imagine.
I don't defend the TSA, but their role is primarily to interdict threats from passengers, not infrastructure.
If unions have to choose between preserving their own welfare (as union organizations) or advancing the welfare of their members (let alone society at large), they will work as hard as they can to mislead and control their membership to preserve themselves and their organization. Further, since unions depend on membership, they use mafia tactics to make sure everybody joins, and fight to keep incompetents in jobs so long as those incompetents pay union dues. They are retrogressive obstacles both to businesses and their members, they just have to dupe the latter, primarily by demonizing the former as the "real enemy", regardless of the fact that unions are often just as parasitic as a business's management.
Collectives falsely usurp and exceed the power of individuals, even though no group should be able to claim greater rights than any its individual constituents possess.
The Senate sponsor of the bill that created the TSA was Enerst Hollings, Democrat. And please note that when Democrats controlled the executive and legislative branches in during the 111th Congress, they still rubber-stamped the PATRIOT Act and only made TSA more heinous.
Because they're still losing subscribers, and even within their remaining subscribers there are many shifting to cheaper plans, so you can't count 100% of those remaining as doing so at the higher combined rate.
Most importantly plans for corporate development are usually made with projections of previous patterns of growth in mind. When the trend goes from positive to 'the most negative ever experienced' it might exceed the tolerance of contingency plans with regard to cashflow. Businesses don't necessary fail because they don't have customers, they fail when their revenue stream doesn't pay their overhead. If Netflix is spending as though they have more people paying higher rates than they actually have, it's a death spiral. They can't cut their overhead without pissing off more people who will leave and further weaken revenue.
I for one support automation of everything that can be automated, but to play devil's advocate, agricultural automation has ruined that sector as a source of jobs. In case you hadn't noticed, economies everywhere used to be agrarian first, urban second. The agriculture industry can no longer support so large a percentage of the population financially, and what's left is more efficient as a conglomerate than a family operation. Both of which are as likely as not to hire people below minimum wage where more people are needed. Your example is a terrible one by such measurements.
If somebody explains to you how colors work, it's up to you to have the basic faculty to understand the explanation. Saying that color x is the most reflected color of an object makes it color x is the most basic and accurate explanation of why a thing is one color and not another. To understand the subjectivity of color to the human mind would take a much more detailed explanation of the human retina and nervous system and the brain itself. To understand the greater depth of the physicality of light would require extensive discourse on the nature of electromagnetism, the creation and dissemination of photons, etc.
If you can't understand simple differences between absorbed light and reflected light, any further detail on the underlying subjects would be wasted breath.
You missed the point. Population density in Europe may be higher but it's moot because so many nations there are having fertility rates below replacement, so they are shrinking (if immigration it ignored) without intervention. Central and South American countries might have very low population density nationally but the fertility rates are much higher.
I think any and all concern is paranoid fear-mongering bullshit as fertility rates on all continents have been dropping for almost half a century and show no signs of stopping. All the most populous nations have seen whole number reductions in that period.
Being that I have not yet made my own inquiries I can be of no authoritative nor substantive assistance. However even in the worst case scenario where I have to accept 'renting' one of Clearwire's dongles to connect to what is doubtless the same network my netbook has connected natively heretofore, it still will cost about the same as what I pay for Sprint now.
Since Sprint has been reselling Clearwire's service for their 4G coverage, I'm going to get on Clearwire (who are likely to stay unlimited since they advertise themselves as a broadband replacement, whereas Sprint portrays their 4G as a broadband supplement).
I'm not sure if you can hybridize phone service such that you have a carrier to do phone stuff and another service provide for 4G, but that's not my problem thankfully, as I have a Dell 1121z with built-in 802.16e (WiMAX).
Clearwire might be lame, but it has been the company providing Sprint's 4G heretofore, so moving to it should not be noticeably different from Sprint. That's what I'm going to do as soon as I have a formal notice of the change to my contract (which I only recently entered into, so I get to keep my subsidized hardware with no early termination, turnabout is a bitch, eh, Sprint?).
Well at least when they change the contract it gives you a free out. I signed on to a Sprint "unlimited" 4G contact a few months ago, and got a subsidized Dell 1121z for like $150. Now because they are changing their terms, I can leave the contract with no penalties and take my Core i3 someplace else.
It's not hard at all, considering that in the following months there seemed to be a new story every other day saying 'previously unknown detail x revealed in wikileaks cables'.
Keeping him naked and depriving him of sleep are not "standard" even for people who are suicidal. Those sort of techniques are usually part of an interrogation, not simple imprisonment awaiting trial.
My first thought was that most government workstations don't run Linux, but the second and more pertinent one is that any software agent like this (I assume it is at least partially client-side) is easily bypassed with a simple Linux live CD/DVD. Boot to that and you're done. Granted that will violate your usage policy, but if you're leaking you probably don't care too much about that.
I'm a frequent contractor. I've been unemployed at least dozen times (never taken unemployment benefits either), and only twice has it taken me more than two weeks to find a job.
Only once in my life have I ever seen anybody look for work sincerely and not find it. Every other person I've ever encountered either wants the moon without paying dues, or is too lazy/stupid to put their resume together properly and interview well.
People put together resumes that are complete shit, with errors and bad design, and then when somebody gives them advice on how to make them look better, they ignore it because, again, they're lazy, or they think they're too good for it. Then they, like you, shift blame to some faceless abstraction instead of the shoddiness of their own so-called effort. The person that makes the best effort usually gets the job, fancy that.
And while I don't interview people because I've avoided management roles like the plague (as you might guess I'm allergic to being responsible for other people's fuck-ups), my dad has interviewed many a fool in his days and has recounted some of them to me. They show up late and unkempt and comport themselves with ignorant apathy.
I realize this is the very definition of an unpopular opinion because blame shifting is just so much more comforting. Nonetheless I cannot close my eyes to the realities I've seen.
I am a federal contractor and we're required to encrypt attachments that contain 'sensitive' information. (Which isn't to say 'classified' since that's not supposed to get tossed around in the first place.) If this were rolled out in the agency I work with, everybody and their dog would be setting off this 'alarm' every hour of every day.
Africans are dying first and foremost because their governments are corrupt. They're the ones taking the resources from foreign aid for themselves. The influence of the West and China is at least slightly positive for the local economies, but that can't erase the fact that the nations are run by unscrupulous parasites.
Unless you're willing to support wholesale 'regime change' across the continent, stop pretending you've got any moral cachet.
It's worth noting that the US used to require universal militia service as well. The Militia Act of 1792 required that all white men of military age keep serviceable rifles/muskets (it was literally illegal not to own a gun) and a certain minimum number of cartridges therefore and report to militia musters on a regular schedule.
Sadly we as a society rapidly grew too lazy to continue this extremely healthy practice.
The thing here is we must consider the perspective of the entire hemisphere. Yes, the Chilean/Peruvian coast was useless to wheeled vehicular travel, as was the Amazon, but you say "Wheeled vehicles just weren't that useful to the Mesoamericans" (which doesn't include South America, BTW) so that segues nicely to all the northern civilizations you haven't talked about. The Aztecs and other civilizations of central and southern Mexico had both reasonable geography and stable/advanced society to enable wheeled vehicles to be useful, and they also did nothing. Considering that their empire was centered in the middle of the country would have magnified the importance and utility of such vehicles.
The Boxer Rebellion was quite separate from and significantly predates the Xinhai Revolution which was the source of nationalists. The communists didn't organize until almost a decade after that.
How can one successful rebellion be more legitimate than another?
Because one was installed through elections and therefore has a valid popular mandate?
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I cause problems? I have voted for representatives from every party, because I vote for people and issues, not parties. I hate both major parties, in fact.
Whoever shoots down the PATRIOT Act I would probably vote for. The fact is that the Democrats wishy-washed their brief majority and that directly led to their failure in the next election. They completely pissed away their momentum, and the disillusioned base didn't turn out for them as a consequence.
And you still try to paint this as one-sided. Did you miss the part about how Democrats played an active role in the establishment of the agency in question? Democrats were pretty willing partners in just about everything for the first few years after 9/11. And let me tell you, fear of Fox News backlash is a bullshit excuse. If you have principles, you should stand for them. It's better to be a martyr than to collude with authoritarian douchebags just to keep your job. That's how every government crime against humanity has ever been achieved.
Tracks are routinely inspected by both LEAs and railroad companies. Many natural and malicious threats to rail operations are discovered and negated by these inspections all the time. Rail might be a relatively soft target, but it's not as neglected as you imagine.
I don't defend the TSA, but their role is primarily to interdict threats from passengers, not infrastructure.
If unions have to choose between preserving their own welfare (as union organizations) or advancing the welfare of their members (let alone society at large), they will work as hard as they can to mislead and control their membership to preserve themselves and their organization. Further, since unions depend on membership, they use mafia tactics to make sure everybody joins, and fight to keep incompetents in jobs so long as those incompetents pay union dues. They are retrogressive obstacles both to businesses and their members, they just have to dupe the latter, primarily by demonizing the former as the "real enemy", regardless of the fact that unions are often just as parasitic as a business's management.
Collectives falsely usurp and exceed the power of individuals, even though no group should be able to claim greater rights than any its individual constituents possess.
The Senate sponsor of the bill that created the TSA was Enerst Hollings, Democrat. And please note that when Democrats controlled the executive and legislative branches in during the 111th Congress, they still rubber-stamped the PATRIOT Act and only made TSA more heinous.
Because they're still losing subscribers, and even within their remaining subscribers there are many shifting to cheaper plans, so you can't count 100% of those remaining as doing so at the higher combined rate.
Most importantly plans for corporate development are usually made with projections of previous patterns of growth in mind. When the trend goes from positive to 'the most negative ever experienced' it might exceed the tolerance of contingency plans with regard to cashflow. Businesses don't necessary fail because they don't have customers, they fail when their revenue stream doesn't pay their overhead. If Netflix is spending as though they have more people paying higher rates than they actually have, it's a death spiral. They can't cut their overhead without pissing off more people who will leave and further weaken revenue.
The unbiased objectivity of this dichotomy is staggering, as is my own sarcasm toward it.
I for one support automation of everything that can be automated, but to play devil's advocate, agricultural automation has ruined that sector as a source of jobs. In case you hadn't noticed, economies everywhere used to be agrarian first, urban second. The agriculture industry can no longer support so large a percentage of the population financially, and what's left is more efficient as a conglomerate than a family operation. Both of which are as likely as not to hire people below minimum wage where more people are needed. Your example is a terrible one by such measurements.
If somebody explains to you how colors work, it's up to you to have the basic faculty to understand the explanation. Saying that color x is the most reflected color of an object makes it color x is the most basic and accurate explanation of why a thing is one color and not another. To understand the subjectivity of color to the human mind would take a much more detailed explanation of the human retina and nervous system and the brain itself. To understand the greater depth of the physicality of light would require extensive discourse on the nature of electromagnetism, the creation and dissemination of photons, etc.
If you can't understand simple differences between absorbed light and reflected light, any further detail on the underlying subjects would be wasted breath.
Fertility rate is not the same as population growth, dunce. China's fertility rate has shrunk over that period just as nearly everywhere else.
You missed the point. Population density in Europe may be higher but it's moot because so many nations there are having fertility rates below replacement, so they are shrinking (if immigration it ignored) without intervention. Central and South American countries might have very low population density nationally but the fertility rates are much higher.
I think any and all concern is paranoid fear-mongering bullshit as fertility rates on all continents have been dropping for almost half a century and show no signs of stopping. All the most populous nations have seen whole number reductions in that period.
Being that I have not yet made my own inquiries I can be of no authoritative nor substantive assistance. However even in the worst case scenario where I have to accept 'renting' one of Clearwire's dongles to connect to what is doubtless the same network my netbook has connected natively heretofore, it still will cost about the same as what I pay for Sprint now.
Since Sprint has been reselling Clearwire's service for their 4G coverage, I'm going to get on Clearwire (who are likely to stay unlimited since they advertise themselves as a broadband replacement, whereas Sprint portrays their 4G as a broadband supplement).
I'm not sure if you can hybridize phone service such that you have a carrier to do phone stuff and another service provide for 4G, but that's not my problem thankfully, as I have a Dell 1121z with built-in 802.16e (WiMAX).
Clearwire might be lame, but it has been the company providing Sprint's 4G heretofore, so moving to it should not be noticeably different from Sprint. That's what I'm going to do as soon as I have a formal notice of the change to my contract (which I only recently entered into, so I get to keep my subsidized hardware with no early termination, turnabout is a bitch, eh, Sprint?).
Well at least when they change the contract it gives you a free out. I signed on to a Sprint "unlimited" 4G contact a few months ago, and got a subsidized Dell 1121z for like $150. Now because they are changing their terms, I can leave the contract with no penalties and take my Core i3 someplace else.
It's not hard at all, considering that in the following months there seemed to be a new story every other day saying 'previously unknown detail x revealed in wikileaks cables'.
Keeping him naked and depriving him of sleep are not "standard" even for people who are suicidal. Those sort of techniques are usually part of an interrogation, not simple imprisonment awaiting trial.
My first thought was that most government workstations don't run Linux, but the second and more pertinent one is that any software agent like this (I assume it is at least partially client-side) is easily bypassed with a simple Linux live CD/DVD. Boot to that and you're done. Granted that will violate your usage policy, but if you're leaking you probably don't care too much about that.
I'm a frequent contractor. I've been unemployed at least dozen times (never taken unemployment benefits either), and only twice has it taken me more than two weeks to find a job.
Only once in my life have I ever seen anybody look for work sincerely and not find it. Every other person I've ever encountered either wants the moon without paying dues, or is too lazy/stupid to put their resume together properly and interview well.
People put together resumes that are complete shit, with errors and bad design, and then when somebody gives them advice on how to make them look better, they ignore it because, again, they're lazy, or they think they're too good for it. Then they, like you, shift blame to some faceless abstraction instead of the shoddiness of their own so-called effort. The person that makes the best effort usually gets the job, fancy that.
And while I don't interview people because I've avoided management roles like the plague (as you might guess I'm allergic to being responsible for other people's fuck-ups), my dad has interviewed many a fool in his days and has recounted some of them to me. They show up late and unkempt and comport themselves with ignorant apathy.
I realize this is the very definition of an unpopular opinion because blame shifting is just so much more comforting. Nonetheless I cannot close my eyes to the realities I've seen.
If you keep making this much sense I'm going to have to take you off my foes list...
I am a federal contractor and we're required to encrypt attachments that contain 'sensitive' information. (Which isn't to say 'classified' since that's not supposed to get tossed around in the first place.) If this were rolled out in the agency I work with, everybody and their dog would be setting off this 'alarm' every hour of every day.
Sounds like bullshit to me.
Africans are dying first and foremost because their governments are corrupt. They're the ones taking the resources from foreign aid for themselves. The influence of the West and China is at least slightly positive for the local economies, but that can't erase the fact that the nations are run by unscrupulous parasites.
Unless you're willing to support wholesale 'regime change' across the continent, stop pretending you've got any moral cachet.
It's worth noting that the US used to require universal militia service as well. The Militia Act of 1792 required that all white men of military age keep serviceable rifles/muskets (it was literally illegal not to own a gun) and a certain minimum number of cartridges therefore and report to militia musters on a regular schedule.
Sadly we as a society rapidly grew too lazy to continue this extremely healthy practice.
The thing here is we must consider the perspective of the entire hemisphere. Yes, the Chilean/Peruvian coast was useless to wheeled vehicular travel, as was the Amazon, but you say "Wheeled vehicles just weren't that useful to the Mesoamericans" (which doesn't include South America, BTW) so that segues nicely to all the northern civilizations you haven't talked about. The Aztecs and other civilizations of central and southern Mexico had both reasonable geography and stable/advanced society to enable wheeled vehicles to be useful, and they also did nothing. Considering that their empire was centered in the middle of the country would have magnified the importance and utility of such vehicles.
There is no 'God' in the US Constitution in the first place.
How can one successful rebellion be more legitimate than another?
Because one was installed through elections and therefore has a valid popular mandate?