since the people of the district voted for a bond measure the funds are already paid for by the people who live in the district
I ddn't realize that simply voting for something meant that you funded it.
No, the bonds were sold all over the world, just like the 2005 Detroit bonds used to cover the $1.4 billion pension shortfall that it had accumulated up to that point.
The holders of those bonds are not going to be getting most of their money back, let alone the interest owed.
Borrowing is not funding. Borrowing is promising to somehow someway fund it in the future.
But is is really rare for pension funds to be adequately funded and most of those stories end up with the workers promised the pentions being royally screwed..
We've heard the narrative before. When someone gets fucked out of their pensions because it wasnt fully funded, the Democrats blame the Republicans.
When the USPS is forced to fully fund its pension, the Democrats blame the Republicans.
When you vote for the lesser of two evils, you get ever increasing evil. People had more than two choices, but of all the choices that we had most people chose increasing evil.
The people that wrongly declare that there were only two choice are a major part of the problem. Thats you, a major part of the problem.
I live in the state of Connecticut. We have a history of taking "the third choice" in local and statewide elections. The two most major cases include when the Republicans nominated John G. Rowland over Lowell P. Weicker as candidate for Governor of the state. Weicker ran independent and won the election.
Interestingly, Weicker was running for Governor because he lost his Senate seat to Joe Lieberman. Years later, Joe Lieberman failed to get the Democrat nomination for the seat he was holding. The Democrats instead nominated Ned Lamont, so Lieberman ran independent and won that election.
Your claims that their are only two choices falls on very deaf ears when speaking to someone from Connecticut. Stop voting to increase evil. Now.
I used to listen to polish punk that had all the words bleeped out.
I'm curious, was that because there were national or regional laws imposing it, was it because there was a market for it, or was it because a large retailer demanded it?
In the United States, albums with explicit content are often available in both censored and uncensored forms. The reason for this is a little but of all three reasons. There arent laws against selling explicit music, but there are laws against broadcasting explicit music in some cases. Additionally, some parents will buy their children censored versions of albums but not uncensored. Finally, some large retail chains voluntarily will not sell explicit content (presumably to win over the parents of the previous set.)
This is the same Eric Holder that lied under oath before congress about targeting members of the press, and before that lied under oath before congress about fast and furious, and before that lied under oath before congress about the dropping of the case against the New Black Panther Party.
Eric Holder is well known to lie while under oath. Now when he is not under oath, Snowden is supposed to believe him? Give me a break.
Fuck Eric Holder, a fuck this whole god damned completely corrupt administration.
My point was that the US attempted to address healthcare by creating a Universal system.
Thats just what they told you.
Suppose a universal system was not put to a vote because they knew that it would have failed to get enough votes. In that case, was where ever going to be one?
If there was never going to be one, then what were they doing? Clearly they were trying to do something different than a universal system. It wasn't an "accident." It was on purpose.
I know it's rather shocking if you live in a delusion where Fox is "Fair and Balanced" and all.
The fact that Fox takes an opposing view to the others on issues isnt really relevant, since all of them report on the exact same stories and neglect to report on the exact same stories.
Isnt their tight coordination evidence enough that they are all selling a specific narrative? Divide and conquer. Fox is (just about) the only one on a particular side because they are so popular. If it was (Fox + CNN) vs MSNBC then one side would dominate. Fox vs (CNN + MSNBC) is the closest arrangement to an even split in eyeballs that is possible. Isn't that also evidence enough?
For the record I am of the opinion that killing a human can be justified, but I am also of the opinion that 'she doesnt want a baby' is not one of the valid justifications all by itself.
It really is a moral dilemma. Liars and deceivers are the worst kind of people because they use their lies and deceptions to pretend that it isn't a moral dilemma.
There were two different lines of Windows kernels until Windows 2000. It was with 2000 that the WinNT kernel finally had all the API wrappers needed to run all regular 32-bit windows programs.
The people on slashdot are also wrong about the origins of NT, which was in fact rooted in OS/2 NT aka OS/2 3.0.. when IBM contracted Microsoft to develop OS/2 there was to be a consumer line (2.0) and a professional/server line (3.0) developed simultaneously. During the contract dispute negotiations, IBM walked away with the 2.0 code base while Microsoft walked away with the 3.0 code base.
Saying things doesnt make them true. Ask a scientist how human a human fetus is and the answer will come back "its 100% human DNA, therefore its human."
The problem here is that you folks are afraid of just coming out and admitting that killing humans can be justified. But because you dont want to admit that, you fall into the same completely irrational, completely non-scientific arguments that slave owners and traders used.
You are worse than the religious folks that dont want fetuses killed "because god said so." At least they know that their argument is based on faith and morality, while you sit there trying to defend a completely non-scientific argument on the basis of convenient non-scientific declarations.
not all of you are like this. Some of you at least have the rational argument that killing a human can be justified. You, however, just lie about what is human and what is not. Just like a fucking slave owner.
Abortion kills a fetus, which is not (yet) a human being.
Ah yes, the less-than-human narrative. We also justified slavery on the grounds that black people we're fully human, too.
Once the decision is made to slaughter fetuses, it then becomes a political matter, the political definition that fetuses are something that doesnt have the right to live. Since we have decided that humans have the right to live, argo the politicians must define fetuses as less-than-human.
I think the point is that groups that thought the Gov were full of crap got targeted, and the media painted as lib versus con, when it is more like pro gov vs against gov.
What a bunch of bullshit "me too!" from the liberals on this one. The liberals were not targeted.
The IRS "singled out" 6 liberal groups vs 292 conservative groups.
Do you know what targeting means, right? It doesnt mean that a couple liberal groups had issues.
Well that depends on whose point of view, doesnt it?
I see a trend where 'doing the same thing' is a lot slower than it used to be in the desktop world, but the meaning of 'the same thing' is based on external appearances. When you look under the hood there is a lot more abstraction than their used to be, but thats not done arbitrarily. For instance, the rise of dynamic XML-based configuration, data, and scripting formats is a long term cost saving measure that really murders performance. Poorly written with regards to the end user, but not so poorly written with regards to the developer/publisher.
The effect is felt very heavily in certain video games, which now take unbelievable amounts of time loading data (ex: the entire game is 6 GB in disk, the drive can peak at about 100MB/sec, yet it takes 60 seconds just to get to the main menu and then another 90 to 180 getting into the game)
If you use a debit card for this ( as my friend has to do for reasons not necessary to go into), you risk an overcharge on your account.
This cannot be stressed enough. Never use a debit card online. In fact, just because you have a checking account that does not mean that you need a debit or ATM card, so don't even have one issued to you. When you open up that checking account, tell them "no."
If there comes a time that some fraudulent charges were made against your checking account, the set of plausible ways that it could have been accomplished have been greatly reduced in this manner. With checking accounts, you have to fight to get your money back, and its a whole lot easier if it was an ATM withdrawl but you've never had an ATM card issued.
Nuclear is not a good option until it can be run completely seperated and insulated from the failings of humans and human greed.
Lets be honest here. Human greed didnt cause the earthquake which sent the tsunami at those reactors.
We might call it bad judgment as to location, but maybe there wasnt really a better location. After all, Japan has like 100 volcanoes...
Maybe they shouldnt have been in the nuclear game at all, but you cant determine that based on the hindsight of a single event having happened without going into the specifics of the event. The fact that a bad thing might happen isnt exactly an excuse not to do things. A meteor might strike a reactor deep inside the continental United States.. should those reactors be built to be meteor proof?
First they have to apply for a permit to go to a new planet. That permit requires that an environmental impact study be performed. All materials that you bring with you must be made of local indigenous elements....
$50bn buys a lot of wind turbines and container sized sodium batteries to even out the load.
To put this in scale, the U.S. Department of Energy commands a budget of $30 billion per year, $10 billion of which is for their Nuclear Security division.
In spite of all that, I'm still pro-nuclear. I just don't think that we are doing it right. The only dangerous stuff at the end of breeder reactor chains has a half-life of only 91 years or less. Everything else produced has such enormous half-lives thats its nearly harmless.
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And how many make their money editing photo's at a level that requires Photoshop?
Millions?
So what does Photoshop for a tablet cost?
$9.99 for tablet, $4.99 for phone.
since the people of the district voted for a bond measure the funds are already paid for by the people who live in the district
I ddn't realize that simply voting for something meant that you funded it.
No, the bonds were sold all over the world, just like the 2005 Detroit bonds used to cover the $1.4 billion pension shortfall that it had accumulated up to that point.
The holders of those bonds are not going to be getting most of their money back, let alone the interest owed.
Borrowing is not funding. Borrowing is promising to somehow someway fund it in the future.
But is is really rare for pension funds to be adequately funded and most of those stories end up with the workers promised the pentions being royally screwed..
We've heard the narrative before. When someone gets fucked out of their pensions because it wasnt fully funded, the Democrats blame the Republicans.
When the USPS is forced to fully fund its pension, the Democrats blame the Republicans.
See how this works?
When you vote for the lesser of two evils, you get ever increasing evil. People had more than two choices, but of all the choices that we had most people chose increasing evil.
The people that wrongly declare that there were only two choice are a major part of the problem. Thats you, a major part of the problem.
I live in the state of Connecticut. We have a history of taking "the third choice" in local and statewide elections. The two most major cases include when the Republicans nominated John G. Rowland over Lowell P. Weicker as candidate for Governor of the state. Weicker ran independent and won the election.
Interestingly, Weicker was running for Governor because he lost his Senate seat to Joe Lieberman. Years later, Joe Lieberman failed to get the Democrat nomination for the seat he was holding. The Democrats instead nominated Ned Lamont, so Lieberman ran independent and won that election.
Your claims that their are only two choices falls on very deaf ears when speaking to someone from Connecticut. Stop voting to increase evil. Now.
I used to listen to polish punk that had all the words bleeped out.
I'm curious, was that because there were national or regional laws imposing it, was it because there was a market for it, or was it because a large retailer demanded it?
In the United States, albums with explicit content are often available in both censored and uncensored forms. The reason for this is a little but of all three reasons. There arent laws against selling explicit music, but there are laws against broadcasting explicit music in some cases. Additionally, some parents will buy their children censored versions of albums but not uncensored. Finally, some large retail chains voluntarily will not sell explicit content (presumably to win over the parents of the previous set.)
This is the same Eric Holder that lied under oath before congress about targeting members of the press, and before that lied under oath before congress about fast and furious, and before that lied under oath before congress about the dropping of the case against the New Black Panther Party.
Eric Holder is well known to lie while under oath. Now when he is not under oath, Snowden is supposed to believe him? Give me a break.
Fuck Eric Holder, a fuck this whole god damned completely corrupt administration.
My point was that the US attempted to address healthcare by creating a Universal system.
Thats just what they told you.
Suppose a universal system was not put to a vote because they knew that it would have failed to get enough votes. In that case, was where ever going to be one?
If there was never going to be one, then what were they doing? Clearly they were trying to do something different than a universal system. It wasn't an "accident." It was on purpose.
Well its hard to see it when your head is inside.
I know it's rather shocking if you live in a delusion where Fox is "Fair and Balanced" and all.
The fact that Fox takes an opposing view to the others on issues isnt really relevant, since all of them report on the exact same stories and neglect to report on the exact same stories.
Isnt their tight coordination evidence enough that they are all selling a specific narrative? Divide and conquer. Fox is (just about) the only one on a particular side because they are so popular. If it was (Fox + CNN) vs MSNBC then one side would dominate. Fox vs (CNN + MSNBC) is the closest arrangement to an even split in eyeballs that is possible. Isn't that also evidence enough?
Thank you.
For the record I am of the opinion that killing a human can be justified, but I am also of the opinion that 'she doesnt want a baby' is not one of the valid justifications all by itself.
It really is a moral dilemma. Liars and deceivers are the worst kind of people because they use their lies and deceptions to pretend that it isn't a moral dilemma.
You need to check your history.
.. when IBM contracted Microsoft to develop OS/2 there was to be a consumer line (2.0) and a professional/server line (3.0) developed simultaneously. During the contract dispute negotiations, IBM walked away with the 2.0 code base while Microsoft walked away with the 3.0 code base.
There were two different lines of Windows kernels until Windows 2000. It was with 2000 that the WinNT kernel finally had all the API wrappers needed to run all regular 32-bit windows programs.
The people on slashdot are also wrong about the origins of NT, which was in fact rooted in OS/2 NT aka OS/2 3.0
Slaves were human. Fetuses are not.
White people are human. Black people are not.
Saying things doesnt make them true. Ask a scientist how human a human fetus is and the answer will come back "its 100% human DNA, therefore its human."
The problem here is that you folks are afraid of just coming out and admitting that killing humans can be justified. But because you dont want to admit that, you fall into the same completely irrational, completely non-scientific arguments that slave owners and traders used.
You are worse than the religious folks that dont want fetuses killed "because god said so." At least they know that their argument is based on faith and morality, while you sit there trying to defend a completely non-scientific argument on the basis of convenient non-scientific declarations.
not all of you are like this. Some of you at least have the rational argument that killing a human can be justified. You, however, just lie about what is human and what is not. Just like a fucking slave owner.
Abortion kills a fetus, which is not (yet) a human being.
Ah yes, the less-than-human narrative. We also justified slavery on the grounds that black people we're fully human, too.
Once the decision is made to slaughter fetuses, it then becomes a political matter, the political definition that fetuses are something that doesnt have the right to live. Since we have decided that humans have the right to live, argo the politicians must define fetuses as less-than-human.
Change your site to use a JS-based multiple-hash-challenge algorithm so that the password itself is never sent over the network at all.
Sigh.. then the hash you transmit becomes a plaintext password...
I think the point is that groups that thought the Gov were full of crap got targeted, and the media painted as lib versus con, when it is more like pro gov vs against gov.
What a bunch of bullshit "me too!" from the liberals on this one. The liberals were not targeted.
The IRS "singled out" 6 liberal groups vs 292 conservative groups.
Do you know what targeting means, right? It doesnt mean that a couple liberal groups had issues.
millions of dead
economic misery for the survivors
Abortion and recession...
That was easy.
Not bloated just poorly written.
Well that depends on whose point of view, doesnt it?
I see a trend where 'doing the same thing' is a lot slower than it used to be in the desktop world, but the meaning of 'the same thing' is based on external appearances. When you look under the hood there is a lot more abstraction than their used to be, but thats not done arbitrarily. For instance, the rise of dynamic XML-based configuration, data, and scripting formats is a long term cost saving measure that really murders performance. Poorly written with regards to the end user, but not so poorly written with regards to the developer/publisher.
The effect is felt very heavily in certain video games, which now take unbelievable amounts of time loading data (ex: the entire game is 6 GB in disk, the drive can peak at about 100MB/sec, yet it takes 60 seconds just to get to the main menu and then another 90 to 180 getting into the game)
If you use a debit card for this ( as my friend has to do for reasons not necessary to go into), you risk an overcharge on your account.
This cannot be stressed enough. Never use a debit card online. In fact, just because you have a checking account that does not mean that you need a debit or ATM card, so don't even have one issued to you. When you open up that checking account, tell them "no."
If there comes a time that some fraudulent charges were made against your checking account, the set of plausible ways that it could have been accomplished have been greatly reduced in this manner. With checking accounts, you have to fight to get your money back, and its a whole lot easier if it was an ATM withdrawl but you've never had an ATM card issued.
I suspect that if the NSA was to provide free "cloud" backup space, that many folks would voluntarily use it.
Nuclear is not a good option until it can be run completely seperated and insulated from the failings of humans and human greed.
Lets be honest here. Human greed didnt cause the earthquake which sent the tsunami at those reactors.
We might call it bad judgment as to location, but maybe there wasnt really a better location. After all, Japan has like 100 volcanoes...
Maybe they shouldnt have been in the nuclear game at all, but you cant determine that based on the hindsight of a single event having happened without going into the specifics of the event. The fact that a bad thing might happen isnt exactly an excuse not to do things. A meteor might strike a reactor deep inside the continental United States.. should those reactors be built to be meteor proof?
First they have to apply for a permit to go to a new planet. That permit requires that an environmental impact study be performed. All materials that you bring with you must be made of local indigenous elements....
So which is it.. fully funded like you originally claimed, or emptied coffers in the 70's and 80's?
I am beginning to see why you dont have any karma.
$50bn buys a lot of wind turbines and container sized sodium batteries to even out the load.
To put this in scale, the U.S. Department of Energy commands a budget of $30 billion per year, $10 billion of which is for their Nuclear Security division.
In spite of all that, I'm still pro-nuclear. I just don't think that we are doing it right. The only dangerous stuff at the end of breeder reactor chains has a half-life of only 91 years or less. Everything else produced has such enormous half-lives thats its nearly harmless.
If the bubble pops, the people that earthlings owe might come pay us a visit.
Picture a "blue marble" image of the earth from orbit, with the caption "FED: Wish you were here."