I can't honestly say from experience whether illegal immigrant laborers are better and more reliable in construction. I can however testify that most of the contractors that I have ever hired or seen hired to do a job rarely ever showed up at the appointed date and time and managed to complete the job on time.
Sadly enough the odds are pretty good that any given woman has read and liked the twinkling vampire novels. The Kardashians are a bit of a stretch but you have a very high probability of there being some other reality tv show that you know she does watch, which you could bring up instead.
The religion I suscribe to actually preaches that principle as the ultimate form of society, well sorta. Which always makes me giggle because some of the other members I know don't understand that it's basically a kind of Theocratic Socialism. And they are always chomping at the bit to show them evil socialists whats what.
Unclassified means it is not Secret or Top Secret. Sensitive means that while it is not Secret it still contains data that could be harmful but not tnecessarily to national security. SSN's are a very good example of data that is not classified but still sensitive, as is all PII data. FOUO usually means it's information that they just don't want spread around but does not warrant being Secret or above and does not warrant the protections that are required for Sensitive data.
On top of all that just because something is not labeled does not mean that it shouldn't be. It is a very good point though that here they deliberately picked out a document to essentially publish and redacted bits from it and still didn't bother to properly mark it. I'd blame incompetence on that one.
I've actually noticed that my 2005 Corolla gets almost 10% worse mileage using gas with up to 10% Ethanol in it. They might as well just give me straight gasoline and add 10% to the price. The stuff is pretty worthless in my opinion.
Whenever gun control comes up my Father always tells us about kids in his shop class in the 60's making zip guns. And even if the government managed to lock down commercial ammunition it's not like the manufacture of black powder is a secret.
You might as well argue that spoons and forks are unnecessary and wasteful. They are also significant contributors to obesity as they allow people to easily consume large amounts of food quickly. We should pass laws mandating that only your fingers, chop sticks and knives are acceptable eating utensils. Banning assault styled weapons is right up there with banning drop side cribs in my book.
They may not be idle for some types of hunting but for others they are perfectly fine. And actually for the same reasons that militaries adopted short barreled carbines over longer rifles. The reason being that soldiers very rarely engage enemies past a couple hundred yards in modern warfare, most of the shooting probably actually happens at less than 100 yards. The same is true for hunting things like deer and other small game. The M4 is supposed to be accurate on a point target out to 500 yards. Is it the take down power of the round you are questioning for hunting purposes? If so, that's one of the.223 cartridge is that the recoil is so negligible that you should be able to get multiple shots in quickly if your first was not well aimed.
If the nature of your competition is to simulate combat situations why would you then deliberately use weapons that are not used in modern warfare?
Self Defense is probably your best arguement simply because they are too large to carry around and so should be kept locked up. And pretty much any weapon that is kept locked up is not going to be useful for self defense unless you happen to be immediately next to the gun safe when the incident starts.
Ultimately though the issue of whether or not we should be allowed to own and buy assault styled weapons comes down to why shouldn't we be allowed to have them, rather than gun enthusiats proving why they should be allowed. The arguments of their dangers have been clearly shown to be fluff and propoganda. There have been very few incidents where these types of weapons played an important role, but because they are high profile it's all anyone wants to talk about. Handguns are a far more important issue, but even there the evidence isn't enough to justify banning them.
I think a big part of the problem is that my daughter is a stubborn little cuss. She can be amazingly compliant sometimes and very helpful and such. But sometimes she decides that she is just going to do whatever she wants, come hell or high water. And so far potty training has been a reliable way to fire her up. Being wet doesn't bother her much as whenever it rains she tries to sneak out to play in it. So far training pants haven't worked as she seems to game the system, she knows there are only half a dozen of them and once she's gotten them all wet for the day she can just go back to diapers.
I really am quite convinced that she is mentally potty trained but just refuses to actually use the toilet because diapers are more convienent in her mind. So far I haven't been able to think up a system to make it worth her while that wouldn't just be a setup for failure in another way.
My daughter is about 3 1/2 now and still refuses to finish potty training. She has been using the potty on and off for around 1 1/2 years now. She just doesn't give a crap about it. It's more convienent in her opinion to use her diaper. She's pretty decent about using the toilet for crapping, I can't remember when I changed a number 2 diaper last, but she rarely cares to piss in a toilet, she's got more interesting things to do than stop and go potty.
I've known neices and nephews who refused to do it also until they ended up with a younger sibling that was doing it better than them. Nothing like sibling rivalries to motivate a kid.
The child seat and the child sized potty don't seem to have caused her any confusion. The only extra challenge of the regular toilet is getting up onto it, and she solved that long ago when she found a wooden stool I made as a Cub Scout more than 25 years ago. She uses that stool all the time raising hell by getting into things she couldn't otherwise reach.
Technically whether or not Manning broke his oath of enlistment or not is still to be decided at his court martial. Remember that defending the Constitution is the prime directive of the oath, not following orders or protecting your chain of command.
I always hated the way the air force handled sick days. If you thought you were sick you had to show up to the clinic at or before the start of the normal workday in uniform. Eventually you would get to see a practitioner of one variety or another who would then prescribe horse pills of motrin and send you to work. In the very rare case that you had something serious, like maybe ebola, they would put you on quarters which meant you didn't have to go back to work. In six years the only time I was put on quarters was when I had my wisdom teeth pulled and was given a pain killer that kept me pretty light headed.
I agree that banks are of critical importance for modern economies. However I think there is a lot of room for improvement especially in the realm of transparency and regulation.
Some banks for instance were running at leverage rates of 72:1, which is frankly insane. That is they were behaving as if they had $72 for every $1 they had in deposits. The personal equivilant would be me obtaining a credit account with a limit of around $2.8 million because that's roughly 72 times what I currently hold in cash assets.
I think the issues with the certifications are kind of lame myself. I don't know anyone where I work who is proud of any of their certifications as we all know they are junk, but the employer requires we have them. Enough employers will require them or be happy that you have it, and hence save them the time and money of helping your obtain it, that they will always be listed on the resume. Like others have said resumes are often filtered by machines before a human ever lays eyes on it, not putting the certs down is a dumb move. Unless part of your hiring process includes informing the applicants of your resume preferences before they submit theirs, you are just acting like a self righteous prick.
These wells were built by agrarian people, not hunter gatherers. The big gotcha of this article is that until recently they thought advanced wood working like this didn't happen until a thousand years or so later. While this article points out that these ancient people were doing advanced woodwork almost as soon as they settled down. I suppose it's entirely possible that they did actually already have these skills before they settled into an agrarian lifestyle. If there was any evidence of to that affect though it's hard to imagine how it could survive to our day. These works only survived because they were submerged in a low oxygen environment for the ensuing thousands of years.
Exactly! This was one of the primary reasons I purchased and carried a Glock when I worked as an armed guard. That firearm actually did have 3 safeties, but they were all designed to prevent accidental discharge of the weapon if you dropped it or the trigger snagged on something. If there was a round in the chamber and your finger was all the way on the trigger the gun would fire.
Technically those are assets, not money. That's an important distinction because the asset is only of value if you find someone that will barter for it, and that is where money enters the picture. Money is simply a way of passing value around between random strangers.
Maybe, maybe not. The last 10 years if I read that right would cost 10% of the total revenues thus far for the protected intellectual property. That's revenues, not profits. So it would be paying 10% of what that IP brought in over the course of the previous 36 years for another ten years. How many commercially owned properties are earning a 10% profit margin even at release?
That is probably the biggest single factor that raises the average for Federal workers. Where I work there are roughly 500 employees in all. Half of them are Civil Servants the rest are contractors. Of the Civil Servants there are two GS-7's that are executive/administrative assistants, maybe three interns in the GS-7 to GS-9 range, two GS-11's, and everyone else is a GS-12 or higher. So that's maybe 2-4% of our civil servants that aren't making at least $68K, I'll bet the average pay numbers would look crazy especially if the erroneous assumption was made that there were civil servants doing menial jobs.
As a Contractor on a DoD contract I know the slot I filled was funded at 154K a year when I started. While I, the one actually doing the work, got 60K of it. When I became a Civil Servant a few years later doing the exact same thing, in fact I didn't even change desks, my compensation went up significantly but thanks to a comprehensive paystub I can see that I cost just under 100K. So while I was a contractor my emplyer was was getting 94K a year to cut my paycheck and such. Now in theory that money was also for continuing training and such but in two years I only ever had one training course. And their overhead for me really was as minimal as possible because I worked at a government facility using government equipment 99.99% of the time.
I'm really an advocate of eliminating all of the relatively permanent contract positions in government like that and converting them to regular civil servants. Contracting makes sense where you have a short term need for some expertise that doesn't exist in your organization already, but 50% of your employee's shouldn't fall under that.
And if she was required to sew a star of david shaped pocket on her sleeve and keep the card there? The star of david badges were the best tracking technology of it's day, these badges are just a newer way of achieving the same thing.
And as others have mentioned this is an attempt to automate and extend the tracking ability. All of which is essentially unnecessary. My teachers would take attendance verbally for the first few days and from then on they did it without us students even noticing unless someone was absent who hadn't missed the first attendance of the day.
This is also easy to abuse the hell out of. Students can carry each others cards covertly. They could clone the badges and just litter the school with fakes. Ultimately I think this creates more issues than it solves and especially when you consider that people will sue over it on a regular basis and run up court costs for the schools.
"Even a highschooler should know better than to say incredibly stupid things like this in a public forum. High schoolers are not stupid. They may not be as mature as a full adult, but they are not stupid."
I would amend that to "they are not anymore stupid than the average adult." Because make no mistake people, kids included are stupid.
After six years and making rank as fast as possible I was actually making less than what that other guy quoted. Granted I was in the Chair Force though so things were comparatively cushy all around, especially as a programmer at an almost entirely programmer base. The base housing was either pretty nice or about to be condemned, 50 50 chance there. The Dorms were pretty miserable but livable, hot water that was slightly more transparent than mud.
The three big things I'm happy the AF gave me are: 1. A security clearance. 2. Six years of experience doing a variety of work as a programmer, DBA and Unix SA. 3. A disability rating that let me apply for jobs that weren't otherwise available to the public.
When I separated I had no trouble immediately finding a contract job because of 1 and 2. Then in a couple years I landed a permanent job because of all 3. People talk about veterans preference being a big deal but the disability thing is actually more critical because probably half of all openings are only open to existing civil servants and people with a disability rating. Once a job is advertised as open to the public your resume becomes one among hundreds instead of dozens. Now four years after separating I'm making a bit better than twice as much.
I think my biggest issue with all of this is that I don't need or want most of that junk. I'm either at work, at home, or very occaisonally somewhere else where the primary focus is on not using a technological device.
It's the same reason I don't own a cell phone, let alone a smart phone. At work I have a computer to do everything I need and the same at home. My PC is modular and so a broken or underperforming part can be replaced. It can operate independantly of the "cloud" and so I can game or create content so long as their is electric power.
The single real advantage that I can see for a tablet or similiar device is the mobility. And given that my lifestyle provides extremely little opportunity to take advantage of that it merely becomes an over priced under performing toy. What I am tempted to buy is a kindle or similiar e-ink device. And my desire for that is driven by the wife's nagging to free up more shelf space for her use to store knick nacks.
So far as the constitutional authority goes he is bound to it by virtue of continuing to live under it's protection. Most national societies have a constitution or simliar document that codifies that societies rules. If you don't want to be a part of that simply leave it's area of affect and renounce citizenship from that nation. But if you choose to remain and hence derive direct benefit from participation in that society then you are voluntarily submitting to that societies laws. You may of course work towards changing those laws but it is critical for the function of society that the rule of law be maintained. The idea that any individual can exempt themselves from a law simply by disagreeing with it holds no validity in any social structure that I am aware of excepting the case of a totalitarian who is by definition usually above the local laws.
The reason everyone else has responded with derision is because the above is usually obvious to everyone but small children that are still trying to figure out how social interactions work.
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I can't honestly say from experience whether illegal immigrant laborers are better and more reliable in construction. I can however testify that most of the contractors that I have ever hired or seen hired to do a job rarely ever showed up at the appointed date and time and managed to complete the job on time.
Sadly enough the odds are pretty good that any given woman has read and liked the twinkling vampire novels. The Kardashians are a bit of a stretch but you have a very high probability of there being some other reality tv show that you know she does watch, which you could bring up instead.
The religion I suscribe to actually preaches that principle as the ultimate form of society, well sorta. Which always makes me giggle because some of the other members I know don't understand that it's basically a kind of Theocratic Socialism. And they are always chomping at the bit to show them evil socialists whats what.
The ammunition page seems to be broken at the moment, it doesn't display anything there and I don't seem to be blocking any JS on that page.
Unclassified means it is not Secret or Top Secret. Sensitive means that while it is not Secret it still contains data that could be harmful but not tnecessarily to national security. SSN's are a very good example of data that is not classified but still sensitive, as is all PII data. FOUO usually means it's information that they just don't want spread around but does not warrant being Secret or above and does not warrant the protections that are required for Sensitive data.
On top of all that just because something is not labeled does not mean that it shouldn't be. It is a very good point though that here they deliberately picked out a document to essentially publish and redacted bits from it and still didn't bother to properly mark it. I'd blame incompetence on that one.
I've actually noticed that my 2005 Corolla gets almost 10% worse mileage using gas with up to 10% Ethanol in it. They might as well just give me straight gasoline and add 10% to the price. The stuff is pretty worthless in my opinion.
Whenever gun control comes up my Father always tells us about kids in his shop class in the 60's making zip guns. And even if the government managed to lock down commercial ammunition it's not like the manufacture of black powder is a secret.
You might as well argue that spoons and forks are unnecessary and wasteful. They are also significant contributors to obesity as they allow people to easily consume large amounts of food quickly. We should pass laws mandating that only your fingers, chop sticks and knives are acceptable eating utensils. Banning assault styled weapons is right up there with banning drop side cribs in my book.
They may not be idle for some types of hunting but for others they are perfectly fine. And actually for the same reasons that militaries adopted short barreled carbines over longer rifles. The reason being that soldiers very rarely engage enemies past a couple hundred yards in modern warfare, most of the shooting probably actually happens at less than 100 yards. The same is true for hunting things like deer and other small game. The M4 is supposed to be accurate on a point target out to 500 yards. Is it the take down power of the round you are questioning for hunting purposes? If so, that's one of the .223 cartridge is that the recoil is so negligible that you should be able to get multiple shots in quickly if your first was not well aimed.
If the nature of your competition is to simulate combat situations why would you then deliberately use weapons that are not used in modern warfare?
Self Defense is probably your best arguement simply because they are too large to carry around and so should be kept locked up. And pretty much any weapon that is kept locked up is not going to be useful for self defense unless you happen to be immediately next to the gun safe when the incident starts.
Ultimately though the issue of whether or not we should be allowed to own and buy assault styled weapons comes down to why shouldn't we be allowed to have them, rather than gun enthusiats proving why they should be allowed. The arguments of their dangers have been clearly shown to be fluff and propoganda. There have been very few incidents where these types of weapons played an important role, but because they are high profile it's all anyone wants to talk about. Handguns are a far more important issue, but even there the evidence isn't enough to justify banning them.
I think a big part of the problem is that my daughter is a stubborn little cuss. She can be amazingly compliant sometimes and very helpful and such. But sometimes she decides that she is just going to do whatever she wants, come hell or high water. And so far potty training has been a reliable way to fire her up. Being wet doesn't bother her much as whenever it rains she tries to sneak out to play in it. So far training pants haven't worked as she seems to game the system, she knows there are only half a dozen of them and once she's gotten them all wet for the day she can just go back to diapers.
I really am quite convinced that she is mentally potty trained but just refuses to actually use the toilet because diapers are more convienent in her mind. So far I haven't been able to think up a system to make it worth her while that wouldn't just be a setup for failure in another way.
My daughter is about 3 1/2 now and still refuses to finish potty training. She has been using the potty on and off for around 1 1/2 years now. She just doesn't give a crap about it. It's more convienent in her opinion to use her diaper. She's pretty decent about using the toilet for crapping, I can't remember when I changed a number 2 diaper last, but she rarely cares to piss in a toilet, she's got more interesting things to do than stop and go potty.
I've known neices and nephews who refused to do it also until they ended up with a younger sibling that was doing it better than them. Nothing like sibling rivalries to motivate a kid.
The child seat and the child sized potty don't seem to have caused her any confusion. The only extra challenge of the regular toilet is getting up onto it, and she solved that long ago when she found a wooden stool I made as a Cub Scout more than 25 years ago. She uses that stool all the time raising hell by getting into things she couldn't otherwise reach.
Technically whether or not Manning broke his oath of enlistment or not is still to be decided at his court martial. Remember that defending the Constitution is the prime directive of the oath, not following orders or protecting your chain of command.
I always hated the way the air force handled sick days. If you thought you were sick you had to show up to the clinic at or before the start of the normal workday in uniform. Eventually you would get to see a practitioner of one variety or another who would then prescribe horse pills of motrin and send you to work. In the very rare case that you had something serious, like maybe ebola, they would put you on quarters which meant you didn't have to go back to work. In six years the only time I was put on quarters was when I had my wisdom teeth pulled and was given a pain killer that kept me pretty light headed.
I agree that banks are of critical importance for modern economies. However I think there is a lot of room for improvement especially in the realm of transparency and regulation.
Some banks for instance were running at leverage rates of 72:1, which is frankly insane. That is they were behaving as if they had $72 for every $1 they had in deposits. The personal equivilant would be me obtaining a credit account with a limit of around $2.8 million because that's roughly 72 times what I currently hold in cash assets.
I think the issues with the certifications are kind of lame myself. I don't know anyone where I work who is proud of any of their certifications as we all know they are junk, but the employer requires we have them. Enough employers will require them or be happy that you have it, and hence save them the time and money of helping your obtain it, that they will always be listed on the resume. Like others have said resumes are often filtered by machines before a human ever lays eyes on it, not putting the certs down is a dumb move. Unless part of your hiring process includes informing the applicants of your resume preferences before they submit theirs, you are just acting like a self righteous prick.
These wells were built by agrarian people, not hunter gatherers. The big gotcha of this article is that until recently they thought advanced wood working like this didn't happen until a thousand years or so later. While this article points out that these ancient people were doing advanced woodwork almost as soon as they settled down. I suppose it's entirely possible that they did actually already have these skills before they settled into an agrarian lifestyle. If there was any evidence of to that affect though it's hard to imagine how it could survive to our day. These works only survived because they were submerged in a low oxygen environment for the ensuing thousands of years.
Exactly! This was one of the primary reasons I purchased and carried a Glock when I worked as an armed guard. That firearm actually did have 3 safeties, but they were all designed to prevent accidental discharge of the weapon if you dropped it or the trigger snagged on something. If there was a round in the chamber and your finger was all the way on the trigger the gun would fire.
Technically those are assets, not money. That's an important distinction because the asset is only of value if you find someone that will barter for it, and that is where money enters the picture. Money is simply a way of passing value around between random strangers.
Maybe, maybe not. The last 10 years if I read that right would cost 10% of the total revenues thus far for the protected intellectual property. That's revenues, not profits. So it would be paying 10% of what that IP brought in over the course of the previous 36 years for another ten years. How many commercially owned properties are earning a 10% profit margin even at release?
That is probably the biggest single factor that raises the average for Federal workers. Where I work there are roughly 500 employees in all. Half of them are Civil Servants the rest are contractors. Of the Civil Servants there are two GS-7's that are executive/administrative assistants, maybe three interns in the GS-7 to GS-9 range, two GS-11's, and everyone else is a GS-12 or higher. So that's maybe 2-4% of our civil servants that aren't making at least $68K, I'll bet the average pay numbers would look crazy especially if the erroneous assumption was made that there were civil servants doing menial jobs.
As a Contractor on a DoD contract I know the slot I filled was funded at 154K a year when I started. While I, the one actually doing the work, got 60K of it. When I became a Civil Servant a few years later doing the exact same thing, in fact I didn't even change desks, my compensation went up significantly but thanks to a comprehensive paystub I can see that I cost just under 100K. So while I was a contractor my emplyer was was getting 94K a year to cut my paycheck and such. Now in theory that money was also for continuing training and such but in two years I only ever had one training course. And their overhead for me really was as minimal as possible because I worked at a government facility using government equipment 99.99% of the time.
I'm really an advocate of eliminating all of the relatively permanent contract positions in government like that and converting them to regular civil servants. Contracting makes sense where you have a short term need for some expertise that doesn't exist in your organization already, but 50% of your employee's shouldn't fall under that.
And if she was required to sew a star of david shaped pocket on her sleeve and keep the card there? The star of david badges were the best tracking technology of it's day, these badges are just a newer way of achieving the same thing.
And as others have mentioned this is an attempt to automate and extend the tracking ability. All of which is essentially unnecessary. My teachers would take attendance verbally for the first few days and from then on they did it without us students even noticing unless someone was absent who hadn't missed the first attendance of the day.
This is also easy to abuse the hell out of. Students can carry each others cards covertly. They could clone the badges and just litter the school with fakes. Ultimately I think this creates more issues than it solves and especially when you consider that people will sue over it on a regular basis and run up court costs for the schools.
"Even a highschooler should know better than to say incredibly stupid things like this in a public forum. High schoolers are not stupid. They may not be as mature as a full adult, but they are not stupid."
I would amend that to "they are not anymore stupid than the average adult." Because make no mistake people, kids included are stupid.
After six years and making rank as fast as possible I was actually making less than what that other guy quoted. Granted I was in the Chair Force though so things were comparatively cushy all around, especially as a programmer at an almost entirely programmer base. The base housing was either pretty nice or about to be condemned, 50 50 chance there. The Dorms were pretty miserable but livable, hot water that was slightly more transparent than mud.
The three big things I'm happy the AF gave me are:
1. A security clearance.
2. Six years of experience doing a variety of work as a programmer, DBA and Unix SA.
3. A disability rating that let me apply for jobs that weren't otherwise available to the public.
When I separated I had no trouble immediately finding a contract job because of 1 and 2. Then in a couple years I landed a permanent job because of all 3. People talk about veterans preference being a big deal but the disability thing is actually more critical because probably half of all openings are only open to existing civil servants and people with a disability rating. Once a job is advertised as open to the public your resume becomes one among hundreds instead of dozens. Now four years after separating I'm making a bit better than twice as much.
I think my biggest issue with all of this is that I don't need or want most of that junk. I'm either at work, at home, or very occaisonally somewhere else where the primary focus is on not using a technological device.
It's the same reason I don't own a cell phone, let alone a smart phone. At work I have a computer to do everything I need and the same at home. My PC is modular and so a broken or underperforming part can be replaced. It can operate independantly of the "cloud" and so I can game or create content so long as their is electric power.
The single real advantage that I can see for a tablet or similiar device is the mobility. And given that my lifestyle provides extremely little opportunity to take advantage of that it merely becomes an over priced under performing toy. What I am tempted to buy is a kindle or similiar e-ink device. And my desire for that is driven by the wife's nagging to free up more shelf space for her use to store knick nacks.
So far as the constitutional authority goes he is bound to it by virtue of continuing to live under it's protection. Most national societies have a constitution or simliar document that codifies that societies rules. If you don't want to be a part of that simply leave it's area of affect and renounce citizenship from that nation. But if you choose to remain and hence derive direct benefit from participation in that society then you are voluntarily submitting to that societies laws. You may of course work towards changing those laws but it is critical for the function of society that the rule of law be maintained. The idea that any individual can exempt themselves from a law simply by disagreeing with it holds no validity in any social structure that I am aware of excepting the case of a totalitarian who is by definition usually above the local laws.
The reason everyone else has responded with derision is because the above is usually obvious to everyone but small children that are still trying to figure out how social interactions work.