People do not "blindly follow orders" as much as we are led to believe. Most of the famous studies showing this were done in the mid 20th century and have been disproved or never actually showed that. People actually tend to follow pressure and suggestion to a point but do a 180 when ordered by someone in authority to do something they find morally objectionable.
Having said that I have a lot of concerns about the militarization of the police and the things they are willing to do. I'm not sure that armed robots for cops on every corner improves things though.
Discreetly checking email is one thing. Texting or sending email? You excuse yourself if you're in a meeting but if with a group of friends at lunch or something it may be OK. You do NOT take calls in meetings. You do NOT take calls in restaurants. If you receive a call you excuse yourself and take the call. Why anyone would want to conduct themselves in such a disrespectful fashion is beyond me. The fact that its such a small percentage of people in this study is actual pretty heartening.
Many (most?) HP managers are managing groups in other locations. What this means in most cases if implemented is that management shows up to their office, employees show up to their disparate offices and the ones that are going to goof off do so in an HP building now instead of at home with no more oversight than they had before.
My problem with this is that if you do you're stuck with a new laptop with 2GB of (probably soldered on) RAM. I was really interested in these because all I really want is a light Linux haswell laptop with 9-10 hrs battery life. This though, it's really not a usable machine these days once you move away from google's OS.
Most of those services are provided by state and county government. The federal government does not educate you for instance... Several of them (like electricity) are typically provided by private companies though there are a few large federal projects left over from earlier last century. The stuff you cited that does apply to the federal government applies to regulation. The vast overwhelming (pretty much all) majority of our taxes do not go to anything in this list.
Is that why 'poverty' in the US correlates so strongly with obesity? Poor people can't get enough to eat? Were I come from most people lived in houses little better than shacks or trailers. They all had satellite dishes, at least 2 cars in various states of repair and chose to spend money on soft drinks instead of drinking water though.
I'm sure there are people who through no fault of their own are struggling to get by. I doubt they represent the majority within their economic class in the states.
Pretty much the same with me though I did also cut out sugar and down on carbs. I bought a barbell and some olympic weights and a squat rack. Only really use em twice a week. A lot of gyms around here aren't even setup for any kind of powerlifting... It's all fancy cardio and weight machines. I feel terrible every time I see some poor overweight person working their ass off on cardio. Just want to pull em all aside and talk to them about how easy it would be to turn their lives around.
I have to go with hed on this. If you want to get strong you basically just need some free weights (deadlifts, squats some power cleans) and a basic understanding of diet and HIT strength training for a short period maybe twice a week. Really unless you are wanting to get more professional about it, the secret is mostly diet and then you lift some weights for half an hour at most twice a week. Probably closer to 10-20 starting out.
Jogging will play hell on your body though. Much better to walk interspersed with short all out sprints once a week if you feel you need it. Really all you need is a decent diet and some occasional weight lifting with free weights. The amount of lifting just depends on if you want to be slim or gain a lot of muscle.
Anything with more than a calorie or two isn't a 'drink' it's 'food'. That means that coke that you drink and that the waitress refilled for you means you had 2 meals for lunch. Trying to stay fit by doing aerobic work is a pain in the ass and is usually counter productive and in the case of jogging likely to lead to injury. Lift weights. Start out easy enough but look into high intensity lifting (free weights) once or twice a week for 30 min to an hour or so. I'm serious about this. A total of just one hour a week and you can be 'cut', 'buff' or whatever in a few months. You don't have to go no carbs but cut your carb intake and try for most meals to be protein, fat and veggies. Even if you don't buy into the 'low carb' stuff you have to know protein keeps you full longer. Carbs you immediately get a jolt of energy then you crash. If you also live a sedentary lifestyle this will eventually kill you. Start drinking green and herbal tea. It's warm and will substitute for snacks a bit. Last, skip breakfast. Light lunch. Meaning you have maybe 300 calories until work ends then eat at night when you'll naturally be more inclined to snack.
Doesn't really seem to me to matter who 'gets' the oil. I live in a state that is a huge oil exporter. 200-300,000 barrels a day or something like that. Doesn't help the price of gasoline here. In a global economy an increase in oil globally would seem to be a good thing. Otherwise there would be less oil and higher prices while the same population bid on the smaller amount of available product.
GM is not the best example.. we lost money on the GM deal. Even with the US propping up their volt sales by spending luxury car fees on fleets of volt cars for gov employees.
It's almost impossible to have a real discussion using the labels "right" and "left". In the United States if you're a classical liberal you are by definition a right wing conservative. It's all nonsense.
Well Norway, Sweden and Denmark I'm sure are nice places but they do have some odd totalitarian bents -At least from an American perspective. For instance state approved lists or state review of names you are allowed to give your child. If some hippy wants to name their kid "Sunshine flower pot" who's business is it?
Honestly if you're in the habit of eating cereal this probably isn't much worse but the problem is people will treat this as a drink instead of what soft drinks really are... food. If you're going to eat anything for breakfast it should be protein maybe some nuts or bacon and eggs. I really don't understand how people function eating cereal, donuts and other cheap sources of calories especially first thing in the day. You either have to keep eating or you feel like crap in my experience.
Well I still feel lucky to have had the chance to exist. Being thankful is a pretty important component of most peoples spirituality and I don't think this is in any way specific to those who adhere to a religion that espouses creationism. While there may be a great number of earth like planets in the galaxy there is a hell of a lot more area that is non-conductive to life... I don't see people's perspective on this changing much any time soon despite your view that the earth is not "fine tuned for life".
If you own apple products you have to expect this... really it's a feature. The average user has no interest in what java (or to an extent even a plugin) is. OSX is a valid OS for these users. They have a safe and secure little word to work in that allows them to be productive and a -usually- benevolent dictator that maintains that world. This is what people buy apple products for no?
Speaking as a Replubican, the American right wing that I'm familiar with doesn't have anything against legal immigration. I certainly don't see anything wrong with cutting all the red tape and bureaucracy out of the process to get a greencard. Get rid of all the crap and have straight forward tests on US history and English and if you have a degree in something that matters or a good job lined up you're in. Most people I see objecting to this are actually quite a bit left of me. They feel that the US should do more to care for it's own citizens and guide more of them into these fields and they certainly don't like corporations getting work visas for these kids after they are out of school instead of hiring locally.
Like the AC said if you're going to use xbmc you really should download a script to run against all your files that will name them to xbmc standards otherwise it's an exercise in frustration. Once that's done it's seamless in my experience. I consume all my TV and Movies through xbmc and very very rarely have a problem.
I have several Raspberry pi boards that I'm using with xbmc (different distros, versions etc). They work but in all honesty the hardware is too anemic to make it a pleasant experience. I've gone back to my mini itx computer at the TV.
I think you can be certain that taking the death penalty off the table is part of many plea bargins. I'm sure threats of it happen every day say, to people that might be considered accessory's to a crime in order to illicit a plea to a lessor crime.
I'm a big fan of the second ammendment, every able bodied man etc. The militarization of the local police across this country that you mention is my biggest concern personally though. You don't need a federal military presence when every police force is being equiped with military hardware including tanks and urban assault vehicles in the name of fighting 'terrorism' -and to lesser extent the war on drugs. The "us vs them" mentality means that more and more cops today are likely to shoot you just on the chance that you pose a threat. Their primary concern is no longer the public's safety but their own and you will find very little in the way of accountability. When it comes to enforcing the laws of an overbearing/overreaching federal government I think it is local police and then federal law enforcement (not soldiers) that we really have to become concerned about.
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People do not "blindly follow orders" as much as we are led to believe. Most of the famous studies showing this were done in the mid 20th century and have been disproved or never actually showed that. People actually tend to follow pressure and suggestion to a point but do a 180 when ordered by someone in authority to do something they find morally objectionable. Having said that I have a lot of concerns about the militarization of the police and the things they are willing to do. I'm not sure that armed robots for cops on every corner improves things though.
Try something from Brandon Sanderson. Best contemporary fantasy author we have these days.
Agreed. I just finished "The Way of Kings". It ate up most of my vacation but I don't regret it a bit.
Discreetly checking email is one thing. Texting or sending email? You excuse yourself if you're in a meeting but if with a group of friends at lunch or something it may be OK. You do NOT take calls in meetings. You do NOT take calls in restaurants. If you receive a call you excuse yourself and take the call. Why anyone would want to conduct themselves in such a disrespectful fashion is beyond me. The fact that its such a small percentage of people in this study is actual pretty heartening.
Many (most?) HP managers are managing groups in other locations. What this means in most cases if implemented is that management shows up to their office, employees show up to their disparate offices and the ones that are going to goof off do so in an HP building now instead of at home with no more oversight than they had before.
My problem with this is that if you do you're stuck with a new laptop with 2GB of (probably soldered on) RAM. I was really interested in these because all I really want is a light Linux haswell laptop with 9-10 hrs battery life. This though, it's really not a usable machine these days once you move away from google's OS.
Most of those services are provided by state and county government. The federal government does not educate you for instance... Several of them (like electricity) are typically provided by private companies though there are a few large federal projects left over from earlier last century. The stuff you cited that does apply to the federal government applies to regulation. The vast overwhelming (pretty much all) majority of our taxes do not go to anything in this list.
Is that why 'poverty' in the US correlates so strongly with obesity? Poor people can't get enough to eat? Were I come from most people lived in houses little better than shacks or trailers. They all had satellite dishes, at least 2 cars in various states of repair and chose to spend money on soft drinks instead of drinking water though. I'm sure there are people who through no fault of their own are struggling to get by. I doubt they represent the majority within their economic class in the states.
Pretty much the same with me though I did also cut out sugar and down on carbs. I bought a barbell and some olympic weights and a squat rack. Only really use em twice a week. A lot of gyms around here aren't even setup for any kind of powerlifting... It's all fancy cardio and weight machines. I feel terrible every time I see some poor overweight person working their ass off on cardio. Just want to pull em all aside and talk to them about how easy it would be to turn their lives around.
I have to go with hed on this. If you want to get strong you basically just need some free weights (deadlifts, squats some power cleans) and a basic understanding of diet and HIT strength training for a short period maybe twice a week. Really unless you are wanting to get more professional about it, the secret is mostly diet and then you lift some weights for half an hour at most twice a week. Probably closer to 10-20 starting out.
Jogging will play hell on your body though. Much better to walk interspersed with short all out sprints once a week if you feel you need it. Really all you need is a decent diet and some occasional weight lifting with free weights. The amount of lifting just depends on if you want to be slim or gain a lot of muscle.
Anything with more than a calorie or two isn't a 'drink' it's 'food'. That means that coke that you drink and that the waitress refilled for you means you had 2 meals for lunch. Trying to stay fit by doing aerobic work is a pain in the ass and is usually counter productive and in the case of jogging likely to lead to injury. Lift weights. Start out easy enough but look into high intensity lifting (free weights) once or twice a week for 30 min to an hour or so. I'm serious about this. A total of just one hour a week and you can be 'cut', 'buff' or whatever in a few months. You don't have to go no carbs but cut your carb intake and try for most meals to be protein, fat and veggies. Even if you don't buy into the 'low carb' stuff you have to know protein keeps you full longer. Carbs you immediately get a jolt of energy then you crash. If you also live a sedentary lifestyle this will eventually kill you. Start drinking green and herbal tea. It's warm and will substitute for snacks a bit. Last, skip breakfast. Light lunch. Meaning you have maybe 300 calories until work ends then eat at night when you'll naturally be more inclined to snack.
Doesn't really seem to me to matter who 'gets' the oil. I live in a state that is a huge oil exporter. 200-300,000 barrels a day or something like that. Doesn't help the price of gasoline here. In a global economy an increase in oil globally would seem to be a good thing. Otherwise there would be less oil and higher prices while the same population bid on the smaller amount of available product.
GM is not the best example.. we lost money on the GM deal. Even with the US propping up their volt sales by spending luxury car fees on fleets of volt cars for gov employees.
It's almost impossible to have a real discussion using the labels "right" and "left". In the United States if you're a classical liberal you are by definition a right wing conservative. It's all nonsense.
Well Norway, Sweden and Denmark I'm sure are nice places but they do have some odd totalitarian bents -At least from an American perspective. For instance state approved lists or state review of names you are allowed to give your child. If some hippy wants to name their kid "Sunshine flower pot" who's business is it?
I noticed this too. Line B is objectively longer than line A. Took a screenshot added a grid lines and yes indeed they are different lengths.
Honestly if you're in the habit of eating cereal this probably isn't much worse but the problem is people will treat this as a drink instead of what soft drinks really are... food. If you're going to eat anything for breakfast it should be protein maybe some nuts or bacon and eggs. I really don't understand how people function eating cereal, donuts and other cheap sources of calories especially first thing in the day. You either have to keep eating or you feel like crap in my experience.
Well I still feel lucky to have had the chance to exist. Being thankful is a pretty important component of most peoples spirituality and I don't think this is in any way specific to those who adhere to a religion that espouses creationism. While there may be a great number of earth like planets in the galaxy there is a hell of a lot more area that is non-conductive to life... I don't see people's perspective on this changing much any time soon despite your view that the earth is not "fine tuned for life".
If you own apple products you have to expect this... really it's a feature. The average user has no interest in what java (or to an extent even a plugin) is. OSX is a valid OS for these users. They have a safe and secure little word to work in that allows them to be productive and a -usually- benevolent dictator that maintains that world. This is what people buy apple products for no?
They're paid in bitcoins. I don't think they'd mind if 90% of their clientele were cops. It is still problematic for the buyer though.
Speaking as a Replubican, the American right wing that I'm familiar with doesn't have anything against legal immigration. I certainly don't see anything wrong with cutting all the red tape and bureaucracy out of the process to get a greencard. Get rid of all the crap and have straight forward tests on US history and English and if you have a degree in something that matters or a good job lined up you're in. Most people I see objecting to this are actually quite a bit left of me. They feel that the US should do more to care for it's own citizens and guide more of them into these fields and they certainly don't like corporations getting work visas for these kids after they are out of school instead of hiring locally.
Like the AC said if you're going to use xbmc you really should download a script to run against all your files that will name them to xbmc standards otherwise it's an exercise in frustration. Once that's done it's seamless in my experience. I consume all my TV and Movies through xbmc and very very rarely have a problem.
I have several Raspberry pi boards that I'm using with xbmc (different distros, versions etc). They work but in all honesty the hardware is too anemic to make it a pleasant experience. I've gone back to my mini itx computer at the TV.
I think you can be certain that taking the death penalty off the table is part of many plea bargins. I'm sure threats of it happen every day say, to people that might be considered accessory's to a crime in order to illicit a plea to a lessor crime.
I'm a big fan of the second ammendment, every able bodied man etc. The militarization of the local police across this country that you mention is my biggest concern personally though. You don't need a federal military presence when every police force is being equiped with military hardware including tanks and urban assault vehicles in the name of fighting 'terrorism' -and to lesser extent the war on drugs. The "us vs them" mentality means that more and more cops today are likely to shoot you just on the chance that you pose a threat. Their primary concern is no longer the public's safety but their own and you will find very little in the way of accountability. When it comes to enforcing the laws of an overbearing/overreaching federal government I think it is local police and then federal law enforcement (not soldiers) that we really have to become concerned about.