Not as crazy as you hoped. Those are all awards that the woman won.
Rita A. Crundwell (born January 10, 1953) was the appointed comptroller and treasurer of Dixon, Illinois, from 1983 to 2012, and the admitted operator of what is believed to be the largest municipal fraud in American history. She was fired in April 2012 after it was revealed that she had embezzled $53.7 million from the city over 22 years to support her championship American Quarter Horse breeding operation.
Even with minimum wage, corporations have people working for no money. As long as they can pretend that the work serves some sort of educational purpose, they can use people as unpaid interns and get away with it.
Actually, we sort of did and should have been taking preventative measures long before it actually became an issue (but hey... capitalism).
Scrapie is the equivalent in sheep and goats and there are references to it going back to the 1700s. Nobody knew the cause back then, but they knew it could be transmitted from an infected animal to a healthy one. We've seen other diseases transmitted from animals to humans (rabies is a great example), so it wouldn't take a genius to guess that BSE might be transmissible.
Creutzfeldtâ"Jakob Disease was first described in 1920, long before BSE was ever considered an issue, and there are earlier references to illnesses that were probably CJD (Creutzfeldt and Jakob wouldn't have been researching it if there weren't, after all). Cannibals in Papua New Guinea were found to have a severe problem with the disease in the 50s and experiments showed that it could be transmitted from from humans to chimpanzees. Transmission of CJD from transplanting animal corneas into humans had been observed by the 70s. Transmission from contaminated instruments and human growth hormone were also recorded before BSE was found to be transmissible to humans.
There was no single "Ah ha!" moment where we suddenly discovered the disease. We've seen signs of it for hundreds of years and there were plenty of indications that it could jump from one species to another. Anybody with half a clue would have been able to guess that BSE might be able to jump to humans, but that would affect profits so everyone remained willfully ignorant until it became a huge issue.
Let us remember that Thanksgiving was set aside as a holiday to thank the Lord for all of our blessings as a nation.
Except that days of thanksgiving date back to the English Reformation during the 1500s and were actually part of an effort to cut down on the 95 church holidays during the year where people were required to attend church and forgo work. It wasn't so much about thanking God as it was about replacing holidays where work wasn't allowed with ones where it was.
Thanksgiving started as a way of saying "get off your ass and get to work instead of lounging around in a church pew you lazy fuck." Going shopping so that stores will have an incentive to be open and people can work is actually right in line with the original intent.
I think an hour of Netflix programming ~= 1GB, so 24x7 use of Netflix would be about 100 GB in a week.
24*7=168. 168 is not about 100.
How do you burn through 300 GB in a week?
Wife, husband, half a dozen kids... boom. Hell, the Duggar family could probably burn through 300 GB in a single day if they weren't so busy molesting their kids and then defending it.
It's not weird when you take into account the fact that you're using the popular (and incorrect) view of what constitutes autism. The DSM definition of autism details exactly what criteria are used to diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorder and it has nothing to do with seeing patterns or handling information.
While their are some autistics who excel at seeing patterns or handling information, the majority do not. You might as well say that having a big dick is a sign of autism spectrum disorder since there are some autistics who have big dicks even though the majority do not.
You don't seem to understand what Saturn is. With wind speeds up to 1800 km/h and almost no solid surface to speak of, the remnants of the probe will be dispersed among the 80+ trillion cubic kilometers of gas and liquids that make up the bulk of what we call Saturn. The amount of plutonium aboard the Cassini probe would be rapidly spread out so much that it won't be detectable within a few weeks, which is hardly indelible.
Except that the private market is the group that's pushing for the laws to allow them to bring in outside people to work for less.
What broken train of logic makes you think the private market is going to suddenly stop doing that and start offering higher salaries to fix the imaginary shortage that they've made up in order to try and get those laws passed?
Ooh, let me guess... you're a Libertarian, aren't you.
The term "hillbilly" is a derogatory name that refers to poor white people with no education, no money and a tendency to possess guns, moonshine and other illicit substances. They would be the last people who would defend the police as they're usually too busy running from them and/or shooting back.
The only valid conclusion is that none of the "engineers" involved have any reasonable level of experience and knowledge as to how to implement cryptography right.
Hooray for outsourcing engineering to the lowest bidder from India!
Let me guess... you didn't read the paper. Oh look, my guess was right while yours were not.
To be fair, that wasn't actually a guess. Every assumption you made was wrong, so it's pretty obvious that you didn't bother looking at the paper to see if you were even close to correct.
How often can you see a headline that says "you'll be shocked" or "you won't believe" before semantic satiation sets in and it just becomes meaningless text that you scroll past? I don't think those phrases have raised any interested from me since sometime in the 90s.
Drones don't miss 90% of the time. Most of the time, the missile hits what the drone operator has targeted. The problem is how often the target has been misidentified.
The real story here is the willingness of the military to take poor, inconclusive intelligence and use that to make decisions that kill people.
Submarines and nuclear reactors aren't nuclear bombs. The only two incidents involving nuclear bombs on the page you linked to were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's two, and only two, incidents (large though they may be).
My point, which you completely missed, is that you don't have to name 100 incidents where people have been killed in order to recognize that something is dangerous.
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Not as crazy as you hoped. Those are all awards that the woman won.
Rita A. Crundwell (born January 10, 1953) was the appointed comptroller and treasurer of Dixon, Illinois, from 1983 to 2012, and the admitted operator of what is believed to be the largest municipal fraud in American history. She was fired in April 2012 after it was revealed that she had embezzled $53.7 million from the city over 22 years to support her championship American Quarter Horse breeding operation.
The cables are so special that you surely must go to an exotic, difficult-to-find store and pay a fortune to get one!
Oh, wait, no. Wal-Mart carries them for $5.
C is a high level coding language now?
Depends on how old you are.
Here you go
Even with minimum wage, corporations have people working for no money. As long as they can pretend that the work serves some sort of educational purpose, they can use people as unpaid interns and get away with it.
Nobody expected mad cow disease either, you know.
Actually, we sort of did and should have been taking preventative measures long before it actually became an issue (but hey... capitalism).
Scrapie is the equivalent in sheep and goats and there are references to it going back to the 1700s. Nobody knew the cause back then, but they knew it could be transmitted from an infected animal to a healthy one. We've seen other diseases transmitted from animals to humans (rabies is a great example), so it wouldn't take a genius to guess that BSE might be transmissible.
Creutzfeldtâ"Jakob Disease was first described in 1920, long before BSE was ever considered an issue, and there are earlier references to illnesses that were probably CJD (Creutzfeldt and Jakob wouldn't have been researching it if there weren't, after all). Cannibals in Papua New Guinea were found to have a severe problem with the disease in the 50s and experiments showed that it could be transmitted from from humans to chimpanzees. Transmission of CJD from transplanting animal corneas into humans had been observed by the 70s. Transmission from contaminated instruments and human growth hormone were also recorded before BSE was found to be transmissible to humans.
There was no single "Ah ha!" moment where we suddenly discovered the disease. We've seen signs of it for hundreds of years and there were plenty of indications that it could jump from one species to another. Anybody with half a clue would have been able to guess that BSE might be able to jump to humans, but that would affect profits so everyone remained willfully ignorant until it became a huge issue.
Because American Thanksgiving is totally different from the thanksgiving holidays celebrated in other countries before America was founded!
Tis the season for Christian outrage and jingoism.
Let us remember that Thanksgiving was set aside as a holiday to thank the Lord for all of our blessings as a nation.
Except that days of thanksgiving date back to the English Reformation during the 1500s and were actually part of an effort to cut down on the 95 church holidays during the year where people were required to attend church and forgo work. It wasn't so much about thanking God as it was about replacing holidays where work wasn't allowed with ones where it was.
Thanksgiving started as a way of saying "get off your ass and get to work instead of lounging around in a church pew you lazy fuck." Going shopping so that stores will have an incentive to be open and people can work is actually right in line with the original intent.
I think an hour of Netflix programming ~= 1GB, so 24x7 use of Netflix would be about 100 GB in a week.
24*7=168. 168 is not about 100.
How do you burn through 300 GB in a week?
Wife, husband, half a dozen kids... boom. Hell, the Duggar family could probably burn through 300 GB in a single day if they weren't so busy molesting their kids and then defending it.
The name Y Combinator has nothing to do with chromosomes.
Let's round out that definition for you.
It's not weird when you take into account the fact that you're using the popular (and incorrect) view of what constitutes autism. The DSM definition of autism details exactly what criteria are used to diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorder and it has nothing to do with seeing patterns or handling information.
While their are some autistics who excel at seeing patterns or handling information, the majority do not. You might as well say that having a big dick is a sign of autism spectrum disorder since there are some autistics who have big dicks even though the majority do not.
Eventually the density of the city will be so high that it'll look a bit like this.
You don't seem to understand what Saturn is. With wind speeds up to 1800 km/h and almost no solid surface to speak of, the remnants of the probe will be dispersed among the 80+ trillion cubic kilometers of gas and liquids that make up the bulk of what we call Saturn. The amount of plutonium aboard the Cassini probe would be rapidly spread out so much that it won't be detectable within a few weeks, which is hardly indelible.
Well yeah. If it didn't move, it would be hand standstillium.
Except that the private market is the group that's pushing for the laws to allow them to bring in outside people to work for less.
What broken train of logic makes you think the private market is going to suddenly stop doing that and start offering higher salaries to fix the imaginary shortage that they've made up in order to try and get those laws passed?
Ooh, let me guess... you're a Libertarian, aren't you.
The term "hillbilly" is a derogatory name that refers to poor white people with no education, no money and a tendency to possess guns, moonshine and other illicit substances. They would be the last people who would defend the police as they're usually too busy running from them and/or shooting back.
Pick up that can!
The only valid conclusion is that none of the "engineers" involved have any reasonable level of experience and knowledge as to how to implement cryptography right.
Hooray for outsourcing engineering to the lowest bidder from India!
Let me guess... you didn't read the paper. Oh look, my guess was right while yours were not.
To be fair, that wasn't actually a guess. Every assumption you made was wrong, so it's pretty obvious that you didn't bother looking at the paper to see if you were even close to correct.
How often can you see a headline that says "you'll be shocked" or "you won't believe" before semantic satiation sets in and it just becomes meaningless text that you scroll past? I don't think those phrases have raised any interested from me since sometime in the 90s.
Drones don't miss 90% of the time. Most of the time, the missile hits what the drone operator has targeted. The problem is how often the target has been misidentified.
The real story here is the willingness of the military to take poor, inconclusive intelligence and use that to make decisions that kill people.
You sure are determined to keep missing the point and demonstrating your idiocy in public.
Submarines and nuclear reactors aren't nuclear bombs. The only two incidents involving nuclear bombs on the page you linked to were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's two, and only two, incidents (large though they may be).
My point, which you completely missed, is that you don't have to name 100 incidents where people have been killed in order to recognize that something is dangerous.
Name 100 incidents of nuclear bombs ever harming a person.
Sure, you'll come up with a few (two at a bare minimum, I'll bet), but you can't come up with 100 of them.
Nuclear bombs are the next cell phone and everyone should have one!
Or, you know, we could recognize the potential for danger ahead of time like we're an intelligent species or something.