You may never visit the Faeroe Islands, but you feel like you've been there when your flight draws a line over them.
Really?
What next? "You may never be get surgery to remove that cancerous lump from your lung, but you'll feel like you have when we draw a red x through it on the CT scan!"
Your life is basically pointless and rather worthless in the big picture. The universe existed before you were born and will continue after you cease to exist. Nothing you do will change the universe.
The problem with "in the big picture" arguments is that you can always expand out to a point where the whatever you're talking about is meaningless. Dismissing something because you can find a scale where it has no impact is a failure in your own logic.
You being hacked to death by an axe wielding maniac has no impact in "the big picture", but I'm willing to bet that you wouldn't dismiss some Jason Vorehees wannabe chasing you down the street with an axe just because your life doesn't make a difference "in the big picture."
If those people stopped voting for candidates who push the policies that result in the problems you describe, they wouldn't have those problems and we wouldn't make fun of them for being stupid.
If the entire EU is blocked from accessing all content on Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and every other social media and news site, they'll get the hint and re-think these ridiculous polices.
Post a mastectomy reconstruction photo with a female nipple showing on Facebook and see how quickly it gets taken down. Repeat the process a few times to see how quickly your account gets permanently banned.
After that, come back and tell us all about how Facebook has a strong bias toward free speech.
We have to put warning labels on everything to tell people not to eat it, not to shove it up their butts, etc. and we still get idiots who eat Tide pods.
And no... huge signing bonuses are not a standard thing and will not become a standard thing. There's too much risk to the employer of losing that money to someone who will move on ASAP and the salary agreement with universities would quickly be amended to cover those bonuses as well, so it would give no benefit to the employee over a steady salary.
For the sake of argument, let's say that 20% is the affordable percentage mentioned in the article. Your basic assumption here is that people would rather make $32k (80% of $40k) per year rather than $80k (80% of 100k) per year.
By all means, show us this huge group of people would would rather make $32k/year rather than $80k/year and explain how they rationalize this as being "the best approach for themselves."
It doesn't mean that at all. You can buy something and walk out without a receipt. I do it all the time with small purchases. The only difference is that the retailer won't print the receipt by default, so they won't have to throw anything away when you don't ask for it.
The memo isn't to prevent those people from engaging in pranks. It's to make it clear that pranks violate company policy, making it easier to fire anyone who goes to far.
You mean the dossier that the GOP initially funded and then abandoned when it became clear that Trump was going to win the nomination? That the DNC provided funding for only after the GOP abandoned it?
Sure.
I am 100% in favor of indicting every member of the GOP and DNC who and throwing them all out of office at this point.
About 6,000 kids per year died of the measles when the deaths first started being tracked in 1812, before vaccines made it a relatively rare disease.
Even with better medical care in the 50s, 48,000 people were hospitalized every year from the measles and 400-500 died.
If you want to see unvaccinated kids who died of the measles, grab a shovel and go to a graveyard that was around before the vaccine became available in 1963. There are plenty.
Aside from all the less savory aspects of that particular piece of art, watch the way the hands move. The guy who built it nailed the movement of human hands better than any other robot I've seen. I wish artificial limb replacements could be made so realistic.
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You may never visit the Faeroe Islands, but you feel like you've been there when your flight draws a line over them.
Really?
What next? "You may never be get surgery to remove that cancerous lump from your lung, but you'll feel like you have when we draw a red x through it on the CT scan!"
Your life is basically pointless and rather worthless in the big picture. The universe existed before you were born and will continue after you cease to exist. Nothing you do will change the universe.
The problem with "in the big picture" arguments is that you can always expand out to a point where the whatever you're talking about is meaningless. Dismissing something because you can find a scale where it has no impact is a failure in your own logic.
You being hacked to death by an axe wielding maniac has no impact in "the big picture", but I'm willing to bet that you wouldn't dismiss some Jason Vorehees wannabe chasing you down the street with an axe just because your life doesn't make a difference "in the big picture."
If those people stopped voting for candidates who push the policies that result in the problems you describe, they wouldn't have those problems and we wouldn't make fun of them for being stupid.
If the entire EU is blocked from accessing all content on Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and every other social media and news site, they'll get the hint and re-think these ridiculous polices.
You probably buy a lot more stuff from PepsiCo then you realize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Before the vaccine, measles caused an average of about 2.6 million deaths per year.
You have a very funny idea of what constitutes a dangerous disease"
Post a mastectomy reconstruction photo with a female nipple showing on Facebook and see how quickly it gets taken down. Repeat the process a few times to see how quickly your account gets permanently banned.
After that, come back and tell us all about how Facebook has a strong bias toward free speech.
I really need to use more of it up by displaying applications that I'm not currently using.
You forgot to tell us to get off your lawn.
We have to put warning labels on everything to tell people not to eat it, not to shove it up their butts, etc. and we still get idiots who eat Tide pods.
A sponge could outsmart humanity.
And no... huge signing bonuses are not a standard thing and will not become a standard thing. There's too much risk to the employer of losing that money to someone who will move on ASAP and the salary agreement with universities would quickly be amended to cover those bonuses as well, so it would give no benefit to the employee over a steady salary.
For the sake of argument, let's say that 20% is the affordable percentage mentioned in the article. Your basic assumption here is that people would rather make $32k (80% of $40k) per year rather than $80k (80% of 100k) per year.
By all means, show us this huge group of people would would rather make $32k/year rather than $80k/year and explain how they rationalize this as being "the best approach for themselves."
It doesn't mean that at all. You can buy something and walk out without a receipt. I do it all the time with small purchases. The only difference is that the retailer won't print the receipt by default, so they won't have to throw anything away when you don't ask for it.
Given that call centers running these operations can have more than one outgoing line, your math is irrelevant.
The memo isn't to prevent those people from engaging in pranks. It's to make it clear that pranks violate company policy, making it easier to fire anyone who goes to far.
At least it's about something technological. It could be yet another article about which politician farted upwind of an orphanage.
Being pedantic about terminology doesn't make you the winner of an argument. It just proves that you missed the point of the argument.
You mean the dossier that the GOP initially funded and then abandoned when it became clear that Trump was going to win the nomination? That the DNC provided funding for only after the GOP abandoned it?
Sure.
I am 100% in favor of indicting every member of the GOP and DNC who and throwing them all out of office at this point.
About 6,000 kids per year died of the measles when the deaths first started being tracked in 1812, before vaccines made it a relatively rare disease.
Even with better medical care in the 50s, 48,000 people were hospitalized every year from the measles and 400-500 died.
If you want to see unvaccinated kids who died of the measles, grab a shovel and go to a graveyard that was around before the vaccine became available in 1963. There are plenty.
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Found my new band name!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the only example I can come up with where the audience genuinely adds to the experience.
That's not farming. That's foraging and hunting.
Being broke and unemployed sucks, but it is a cashless lifestyle.
Someone already built one, so it's not impossible.
Aside from all the less savory aspects of that particular piece of art, watch the way the hands move. The guy who built it nailed the movement of human hands better than any other robot I've seen. I wish artificial limb replacements could be made so realistic.
So brave that they crossed the thin line between bravery and stupidity, in fact.