Even by European "awesome healthcare" standards, something like that would count as elective surgery. By the time it's considered standard practice it would be cheap enough that it would be as much of a non-issue as someone getting an organ transplant or a laceration sewn up.
The first time I learned about IP addressess, I learned they were like phone numbers for computers. When you look up a website, your computer is calling the "phone number" (IP) of another. I'm pretty sure you can break it down easily enough using this analogy.
"An IP address is like a phone number for a computer. Everything that connects to the Internet, from your computer to your phone to your television (!) has to have its own IP address. We have so many internet connected devices that we're running out of the numbers, and we need to start using new ones - but to do it means that we need to get new equipment running."
To be fair to this guy, kids with ADHD "just didn't want to pay attention" 20-30 years ago. People with autism were "slow". etc.
Have you considered that NPD and narcissism may be one and the same? It's pretty clear cut - when narcissism is as prevalent as it appears to be with this guy, it's probably a disorder.
If it's at the point that the government is not listening to the will of the citizenry anymore, then it is time to remove the government - peacefully if possible, but forcibly if necessary.
Either that, or they were your typical charlatan trying to scare people for personal profit. (Actually, that sort of person is easy enough to find in Mexico.;-)
Yeah, I know. Mexico is a heavily Catholic country. You can't walk two blocks without bumping into a priest.
Your defeatist attitude aside, we're in an age where the citzenry has never been more empowered - the Internet age.
We can look up nearly any piece of information (for free!) in seconds. Incidentally, this also includes things like political donations and congressional voting records. If this passes, we are going to lose one of the most important checks we have on the government - knowledge of what they're doing.
Backroom deals are quickly becoming a thing of the past in the age of the Internet and citizen journalism. We can't lose this fight - we have a real chance to turn the tide and get our country cleaned up.
You're thinking of Turkish Toilets, also called "Squat Toilets".
Pros: Squatting is better for getting the waste out of your bowels. Sitting on a toilet like a chair is actually unnatural. In the last 5 years or so physicians have been advising that people raise their feet on a stool on seated toilets to help with bowel movement.
Cons: They can clog with toilet paper, so there's that. Also, they don't have standing water as sitting toilets do, so the stench can be rather pervasive.
You mean infrastructure like the loads and loads of bridges that need to be decommissioned and rebuilt because they're 10 or 20 years past their service life? Not all bridges can be maintained forever.
This makes me wonder if there's such a thing as "spectrum pollution". There's been more than a few cases of a state or country running, say, a coal power plant and having the fumes drift over to their neighbor. I wonder how states/countries handle it when someone over a border is hogging up a fat chunk of spectrum?
These data sets are not related. A better comparison might be how many nuclear power plants melted down vs., say, how many oil spills there were or how many coal mines caught fire.
I mean, that's like saying 10 out of 100,000 people are killed by guns and 20 out of 100,000 people are killed by raccoons, and therefore raccoons are more dangerous than guns.
As far as the Supreme Court is concerned, the right of an individual to keep and bear arms on their own property (home, land, etc.) is recognized and cannot ever be taken away. This means things like Chicago, San Francisco, and DC's gun ban laws are/were unconstitutional.
We have unfortunately not yet addressed concealed carry or open carry on a nationwide level. I really hope that it happens soon. I live in New Jersey which is almost as bad as California when it comes to gun laws. I've known people who were shot, raped, etc. and completely incapable of defending themselves because of our shitty laws.
Again, IANAL, but "bear" arms presumably means, you know, to actually carry them. (That is, in fact, the definition of the transitive.) Although the SCOTUS has yet to decide on this issue, it's pretty clear cut to me that we ought to be able to carry guns basically anywhere per the constitution.
Before anyone talks about the potential ruination of society, keep in mind that there are more than a few countries in the world where this very thing happens and their society hasn't fallen apart because everybody is armed. Handing someone a gun doesn't instantly make them an idiot.
All I have to do now is write a piece of software that converts 1s and 0s into 2s and 1s (respectively). I can call it the "Executive Elite Processing Unit" and charge $500 a pop.
I recall seeing a news story about bootleg cell phones, and the Chinese factories that made them actually added features to the designs after they reverse-engineered them.
Ok, so do you blame abortion doctors who get killed?
A bit, yes, actually.
If you're well aware that people want to harm or kill you in any fashion and you don't step up your security, it's largely your fault that you died.
In the case of this company, well. You work for a shitty company and bad things happen to you one way or another - either through actions of the public, actions of private individuals, incompetence on the part of the company and/or the government, etc.
If you worked in one of those Batman comic factories with uncovered vats of toxic waste and fell in, whose fault is it really? Is it the company's fault for not securing the vats, or your fault for continuing to work at a place where the company has shown a clear disregard for the employees and their safety?
To be fair, OP referred to a) the holocaust (which was specifically the 6 million figure you cited)
The holocaust was one of the worst times in human history.
But for whatever reason, people seem to often neglect mentioning the other half. Yes, 6,000,000 jews were killed. But the 5,000,000 mentally handicapped, physically handicapped, Poles, Russians, Roma, intellectuals, actors, thinkers, teachers, etc. who were just as "undesirable" nearly always fall by the wayside.
I'm in no way trying to diminish the suffering of the Jewish people, but I think that it's not only absurd but outright insulting and revolting that everyone else who was killed in the holocaust is so often ignored and forgotten.
Nah, tomorrow starts the search for the so called god brick. The elusive brick thought to bind all other bricks together.
Oh sure, it's all fun and games until he accidentally creates a tiny square black hole and then we are all screwed!
They already occur naturally due to a quirk in quantum mechanics known as "Brickbuilder's Box". Whenever you search for a piece that you need in a bin full of bricks, it will always be where you cannot find it even though you swear you saw it just a second ago. That is because it is in square black hole. When you no longer need the brick, the black hole dissipates and the brick returns.
You're advocating that the United States builds a giant railgun on a volcano. Are you trying to upgrade us from villains to supervillains? What's next, every Congressman gets a white cat and a monocle?
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Even by European "awesome healthcare" standards, something like that would count as elective surgery. By the time it's considered standard practice it would be cheap enough that it would be as much of a non-issue as someone getting an organ transplant or a laceration sewn up.
The first time I learned about IP addressess, I learned they were like phone numbers for computers. When you look up a website, your computer is calling the "phone number" (IP) of another. I'm pretty sure you can break it down easily enough using this analogy.
"An IP address is like a phone number for a computer. Everything that connects to the Internet, from your computer to your phone to your television (!) has to have its own IP address. We have so many internet connected devices that we're running out of the numbers, and we need to start using new ones - but to do it means that we need to get new equipment running."
To be fair to this guy, kids with ADHD "just didn't want to pay attention" 20-30 years ago. People with autism were "slow". etc.
Have you considered that NPD and narcissism may be one and the same? It's pretty clear cut - when narcissism is as prevalent as it appears to be with this guy, it's probably a disorder.
If it's at the point that the government is not listening to the will of the citizenry anymore, then it is time to remove the government - peacefully if possible, but forcibly if necessary.
As an evolutionary biologist you would probably appreciate this the most out of anyone.
www.cocacola.com
This domain has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations...
Either that, or they were your typical charlatan trying to scare people for personal profit. (Actually, that sort of person is easy enough to find in Mexico. ;-)
Yeah, I know. Mexico is a heavily Catholic country. You can't walk two blocks without bumping into a priest.
Your defeatist attitude aside, we're in an age where the citzenry has never been more empowered - the Internet age.
We can look up nearly any piece of information (for free!) in seconds. Incidentally, this also includes things like political donations and congressional voting records. If this passes, we are going to lose one of the most important checks we have on the government - knowledge of what they're doing.
Backroom deals are quickly becoming a thing of the past in the age of the Internet and citizen journalism. We can't lose this fight - we have a real chance to turn the tide and get our country cleaned up.
You're thinking of Turkish Toilets, also called "Squat Toilets".
Pros: Squatting is better for getting the waste out of your bowels. Sitting on a toilet like a chair is actually unnatural. In the last 5 years or so physicians have been advising that people raise their feet on a stool on seated toilets to help with bowel movement.
Cons: They can clog with toilet paper, so there's that. Also, they don't have standing water as sitting toilets do, so the stench can be rather pervasive.
Exactly! Because "That's the way we've always done it!" has always worked out for mankind in the past.
You mean infrastructure like the loads and loads of bridges that need to be decommissioned and rebuilt because they're 10 or 20 years past their service life? Not all bridges can be maintained forever.
This makes me wonder if there's such a thing as "spectrum pollution". There's been more than a few cases of a state or country running, say, a coal power plant and having the fumes drift over to their neighbor. I wonder how states/countries handle it when someone over a border is hogging up a fat chunk of spectrum?
These data sets are not related. A better comparison might be how many nuclear power plants melted down vs., say, how many oil spills there were or how many coal mines caught fire.
I mean, that's like saying 10 out of 100,000 people are killed by guns and 20 out of 100,000 people are killed by raccoons, and therefore raccoons are more dangerous than guns.
Disclaimer: IANAL either, but I'm a bit knowledgeable on the topic.
There were two major supreme court cases regarding the Second Amendment in the last few years.
The first was District of Columbia v. Heller. The second was McDonald v. Chicago. What do these mean?
As far as the Supreme Court is concerned, the right of an individual to keep and bear arms on their own property (home, land, etc.) is recognized and cannot ever be taken away. This means things like Chicago, San Francisco, and DC's gun ban laws are/were unconstitutional.
We have unfortunately not yet addressed concealed carry or open carry on a nationwide level. I really hope that it happens soon. I live in New Jersey which is almost as bad as California when it comes to gun laws. I've known people who were shot, raped, etc. and completely incapable of defending themselves because of our shitty laws.
Again, IANAL, but "bear" arms presumably means, you know, to actually carry them. (That is, in fact, the definition of the transitive.) Although the SCOTUS has yet to decide on this issue, it's pretty clear cut to me that we ought to be able to carry guns basically anywhere per the constitution.
Before anyone talks about the potential ruination of society, keep in mind that there are more than a few countries in the world where this very thing happens and their society hasn't fallen apart because everybody is armed. Handing someone a gun doesn't instantly make them an idiot.
The irony is delicious. It would be as if we had sold Stinger missiles to Mujahedin or something like that.
Oh... oh god.
All I have to do now is write a piece of software that converts 1s and 0s into 2s and 1s (respectively). I can call it the "Executive Elite Processing Unit" and charge $500 a pop.
I think I love you.
Oh, of course they can be innovative.
I recall seeing a news story about bootleg cell phones, and the Chinese factories that made them actually added features to the designs after they reverse-engineered them.
No, you fool! Don't give them ideas!
And so, James Truetype fell into a vat of TOXIC NEWSPAPER INK only to emerge as a horrible supervillian - THE SERIF!
SERIF: You'll never stop me Batman, it's too late! The story about you wearing ankle socks is already in the morning edition!
BATMAN: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
No no, I included actors, see?
Ok, so do you blame abortion doctors who get killed?
A bit, yes, actually.
If you're well aware that people want to harm or kill you in any fashion and you don't step up your security, it's largely your fault that you died.
In the case of this company, well. You work for a shitty company and bad things happen to you one way or another - either through actions of the public, actions of private individuals, incompetence on the part of the company and/or the government, etc.
If you worked in one of those Batman comic factories with uncovered vats of toxic waste and fell in, whose fault is it really? Is it the company's fault for not securing the vats, or your fault for continuing to work at a place where the company has shown a clear disregard for the employees and their safety?
Most CIOs, however, don't think like this. They lose. Game over. New game?
Executives never lose. Even when they fail, they win. It's called a golden parachute.
To be fair, OP referred to a) the holocaust (which was specifically the 6 million figure you cited)
The holocaust was one of the worst times in human history.
But for whatever reason, people seem to often neglect mentioning the other half. Yes, 6,000,000 jews were killed. But the 5,000,000 mentally handicapped, physically handicapped, Poles, Russians, Roma, intellectuals, actors, thinkers, teachers, etc. who were just as "undesirable" nearly always fall by the wayside.
I'm in no way trying to diminish the suffering of the Jewish people, but I think that it's not only absurd but outright insulting and revolting that everyone else who was killed in the holocaust is so often ignored and forgotten.
Nah, tomorrow starts the search for the so called god brick. The elusive brick thought to bind all other bricks together.
Oh sure, it's all fun and games until he accidentally creates a tiny square black hole and then we are all screwed!
They already occur naturally due to a quirk in quantum mechanics known as "Brickbuilder's Box". Whenever you search for a piece that you need in a bin full of bricks, it will always be where you cannot find it even though you swear you saw it just a second ago. That is because it is in square black hole. When you no longer need the brick, the black hole dissipates and the brick returns.
Let me just be sure on this.
You're advocating that the United States builds a giant railgun on a volcano. Are you trying to upgrade us from villains to supervillains? What's next, every Congressman gets a white cat and a monocle?
Same. The people I've set them up with have really appreciated their 24 hour tech support.
That said, any good suggestions on who to switch to? I'm seriously considering moving my assets away from GoDaddy permanently.