The Internet is good for a lot of things; but don't try to pound nails with it.
I'm sure eVoting can be made to work in the long run. OTOH, yeah, springing it on people in the middle of a disaster is probably not such a hot idea. Duh!
I think you'll find that many experts in these fields will say that the panic is the greatest risk, greater than the disease.
Then they should be fired immediately. The fact that we only have a few cases now is irrelevant. Once it's established, it will grow exponentially. Fuck trying to control the panic. Control the disease, and you automatically control the panic. We should come out with guns blazing when it's still manageable.
Picture something like the Station nightclub fire, where panic was indeed a component of the tragedy. However, if somebody had gotten a good blast of CO2 on the fire in the first few seconds, tragedy would have been averted. Now picture somebody with a fire extinguisher standing on the stage as it burns. He keeps telling the crowd not to panic, squirts the fire a bit, turns back and tells them not to panic. Fire's a bit bigger. Gives it another lame little blast. Tells crowd not to panic.
I think you get the picture. The crowd panics anyway; because you gave them the reason to panic by not attacking the real problem with all your might.
WW2, did we tell people not to panic? Hell no. There was no time. We just built as many weapons as we could, as fast as we could, and trained as many military as fast as we could. Yeah, some people paniced; but we "told them not to panic" with actions, not words.
1. Enable JavaScript (OK, everybody requires that, NBD) but then the real kicker 2. You have this mass of circles that heave and scroll as you move your pointer. Sea-sickness. OMG, you're supposed to click those circles? Why???
I don't know the architecture that well, but aren't all of these things just safe interfaces to the registry or rundll commands? Whenever the UI goes nuts, the fix almost always involves regedit or rundll. How about just giving us a safe, generic interface to regedit and rundll commands? Such a beast could be made to look like the classic control panel, or customized to look like anything you want.
Destruction of art and/or the suppression of ideas is the opposite of creativity. The creative people bring new ideas out of the dark and share them. They use those ideas to create new things. Destructive people suppress new ideas and destroy things.
Common sense is a tool that "grounds" the creatives and helps keep them from acting on all the wrong ideas (I won't drink the green paint today). It's not the opposite of creativity. It's a help-mate.
What about the obvious answer--moving the cash box right up to the back of the truck. Have one volunteer taking the money, the other in the truck skidding the ice out on a dolly. It's not like labor costs are a concern? Volunteers! No pay. Take two. Also, person in truck literally has the coolest job at BM. I bet a lot of people would want to do that.
I recall hearing that from a physiological standpoint, the best fighter pilot is a short female with slightly elevated blood pressure. Apparently, such a pilot could tolerate G-forces better in addition to requiring slightly less thrust from the aircraft. I'm not surprised they're better in space.
Of course for historical reasons that's not a common profile for a fighter pilot or an astronaut.
I think you're being a bit facetious; but what if it only works when 50% of the grains in the metal are a certain size, the initial temperature is 80.523C, +/- 0.3C, and the electrode is machined to a very high tolerance?
This leads to an interesting question: What's the most "finicky" chemical reaction, for lack of a better expression? I'm thinking of a starting point as seed germination. When you get a seed packet, you routinely expect some percentage of seeds to not germinate. What if the experiment were like germinating a single seed? Of course seeds are more complex than physics experiments are supposed to be... but what if each setup is like a seed? What if the "germination" is 10%? It wouldn't be useful for power generation; but it would still be interesting science.
Of course it's not perfect. I seem to recall hearing about that issue. I wonder if they considered giving people a choice. I think most users would rather see boot-up messages scroll by than have the equivalent of a bright incandescent burning in their garage all night long.
Does he mean a transient reaction in the test set-up that produces the byproducts of fusion, but not long enough to generate useful power? I'm hoping he doesn't mean a period in time when the experiments work, then stop working. That would imply periodic changes in physical laws, which is a much more far-fetched scenario. The idea that some physical constants are not as constant as we think has been proposed, but AFAIK no experiment has indicated that this happens.
If they know how to cook, send 'em on over. Turn US prisons into authentic Italian restaurants with resident staff. Non-violent offenders only of course. I don't want to find a finger in my linguine.
We had real estate prices drop, and the world was miserable. That's because real estate investing works with leverage. Leverage allows you to buy more property, and as it increases in value you pay the lower long-term capital gains rate (if you decide to take a profit).
A sudden drop in RE prices puts a lot of people back "underwater". Massive deflation, with all the problems of a depression.
You're suggesting that we should re-create 2008 and then some. After the dust cleared, maybe it would be OK... but a tremendous amount of pain would be inflicted for... what now?
Property tax can be bad for some individual poor people; but doesn't create poverty in general. Let's be clear here--I'm talking about taxes on real estate only. The classic argument in support of tax on land and housing is that without it, the wealthy might horde the land and fail to put it to productive use. With a tax in place, you must produce some income with the property to justify ownership. That income-producing activity is generally good for the poor, because it employs them.
Property tax only tends to harm the poor when they can't afford the rent (because property tax is passed through) or can't pay the tax directly. You tend to think of retired people as getting "taxed off their land". This problem could be solved by better integration of income and property taxes.
As it stands, property taxation lives in a world of its own. It tends to be unaware of the income tax. If the two tax regimes were integrated, progressive income tax would include progressive property tax.
Imagine this: [X] Is your AGI less than $10,000? If so, you owe no property tax. If you made property tax payments in 2014, you may file for a property tax refund.
An integration like this would have solved some of California's problems with out of control property taxes in the 1970s. Instead, they went the prop 13 route and opened up a whole can of worms. We're still dealing with it.
Not just no. HELL No! Hell no to retirement accounts dropping 5% every year. OK, so you'd exempt that, right? Just tax the jewelry and the Bentleys? Uh-oh... there was a tragic boating accident. My yacht sank with all that stuff on board coughForeignRegistrycough.
The rich will evade such a tax. The rest of us will get agents knocking on our doors to inventory our stuff. I remember hearing about taxes like this from old timers, where you had to inventory stuff. This is like the "use tax", which is also impractical and evaded by just about anybody without even thinking about it. If you ever bought stuff on vacation, there's a good chance you're a use tax evader.
So. These kinds of property taxes aren't particularly enforceable, and aren't particularly fair. Also, they just sort of grate on me in a very peculiar "I thought I owned that, but no you don't" kind of way. The only property tax we'll sit still for is the one on real property; and that's because you can't move it..
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LOL, could not have said better myself.
I think "criminal histories" in this case is probably just a code-phrase for "smoked weed".
The Internet is good for a lot of things; but don't try to pound nails with it.
I'm sure eVoting can be made to work in the long run. OTOH, yeah, springing it on people in the middle of a disaster is probably not such a hot idea. Duh!
Insanity later.
Best auto-suggest/spell-check issue I've seen in a while. Just in time for Halloween. I assume you were going for "without skills that are".
I think you'll find that many experts in these fields will say that the panic is the greatest risk, greater than the disease.
Then they should be fired immediately. The fact that we only have a few cases now is irrelevant. Once it's established, it will grow exponentially. Fuck trying to control the panic. Control the disease, and you automatically control the panic. We should come out with guns blazing when it's still manageable.
Picture something like the Station nightclub fire, where panic was indeed a component of the tragedy. However, if somebody had gotten a good blast of CO2 on the fire in the first few seconds, tragedy would have been averted. Now picture somebody with a fire extinguisher standing on the stage as it burns. He keeps telling the crowd not to panic, squirts the fire a bit, turns back and tells them not to panic. Fire's a bit bigger. Gives it another lame little blast. Tells crowd not to panic.
I think you get the picture. The crowd panics anyway; because you gave them the reason to panic by not attacking the real problem with all your might.
WW2, did we tell people not to panic? Hell no. There was no time. We just built as many weapons as we could, as fast as we could, and trained as many military as fast as we could. Yeah, some people paniced; but we "told them not to panic" with actions, not words.
1. Enable JavaScript (OK, everybody requires that, NBD) but then the real kicker 2. You have this mass of circles that heave and scroll as you move your pointer. Sea-sickness. OMG, you're supposed to click those circles? Why???
I don't know the architecture that well, but aren't all of these things just safe interfaces to the registry or rundll commands? Whenever the UI goes nuts, the fix almost always involves regedit or rundll. How about just giving us a safe, generic interface to regedit and rundll commands? Such a beast could be made to look like the classic control panel, or customized to look like anything you want.
Common Sense is the opposite of creativity
Destruction of art and/or the suppression of ideas is the opposite of creativity. The creative people bring new ideas out of the dark and share them. They use those ideas to create new things. Destructive people suppress new ideas and destroy things.
Common sense is a tool that "grounds" the creatives and helps keep them from acting on all the wrong ideas (I won't drink the green paint today). It's not the opposite of creativity. It's a help-mate.
Yeah, it's for Hal in Sales. It's his retirement gift. What? The whole company? You've gotta be kidding me. Why?
Git set and aid esr for cvs and svn fix. HTH.
What about the obvious answer--moving the cash box right up to the back of the truck. Have one volunteer taking the money, the other in the truck skidding the ice out on a dolly. It's not like labor costs are a concern? Volunteers! No pay. Take two. Also, person in truck literally has the coolest job at BM. I bet a lot of people would want to do that.
I recall hearing that from a physiological standpoint, the best fighter pilot is a short female with slightly elevated blood pressure. Apparently, such a pilot could tolerate G-forces better in addition to requiring slightly less thrust from the aircraft. I'm not surprised they're better in space.
Of course for historical reasons that's not a common profile for a fighter pilot or an astronaut.
I think you're being a bit facetious; but what if it only works when 50% of the grains in the metal are a certain size, the initial temperature is 80.523C, +/- 0.3C, and the electrode is machined to a very high tolerance?
This leads to an interesting question: What's the most "finicky" chemical reaction, for lack of a better expression? I'm thinking of a starting point as seed germination. When you get a seed packet, you routinely expect some percentage of seeds to not germinate. What if the experiment were like germinating a single seed? Of course seeds are more complex than physics experiments are supposed to be... but what if each setup is like a seed? What if the "germination" is 10%? It wouldn't be useful for power generation; but it would still be interesting science.
Of course it's not perfect. I seem to recall hearing about that issue. I wonder if they considered giving people a choice. I think most users would rather see boot-up messages scroll by than have the equivalent of a bright incandescent burning in their garage all night long.
Yes, it's a joke.
What does he mean by a "cold fusion period"?
Does he mean a transient reaction in the test set-up that produces the byproducts of fusion, but not long enough to generate useful power? I'm hoping he doesn't mean a period in time when the experiments work, then stop working. That would imply periodic changes in physical laws, which is a much more far-fetched scenario. The idea that some physical constants are not as constant as we think has been proposed, but AFAIK no experiment has indicated that this happens.
So it's expensive, but at least you get what you pay for.
If they know how to cook, send 'em on over. Turn US prisons into authentic Italian restaurants with resident staff. Non-violent offenders only of course. I don't want to find a finger in my linguine.
I have nothing to say to this but "the chair is against the wall". Also. "John has a long mustache" and X35DNK685.
We had real estate prices drop, and the world was miserable. That's because real estate investing works with leverage. Leverage allows you to buy more property, and as it increases in value you pay the lower long-term capital gains rate (if you decide to take a profit).
A sudden drop in RE prices puts a lot of people back "underwater". Massive deflation, with all the problems of a depression.
You're suggesting that we should re-create 2008 and then some. After the dust cleared, maybe it would be OK... but a tremendous amount of pain would be inflicted for... what now?
Property tax can be bad for some individual poor people; but doesn't create poverty in general. Let's be clear here--I'm talking about taxes on real estate only. The classic argument in support of tax on land and housing is that without it, the wealthy might horde the land and fail to put it to productive use. With a tax in place, you must produce some income with the property to justify ownership. That income-producing activity is generally good for the poor, because it employs them.
Property tax only tends to harm the poor when they can't afford the rent (because property tax is passed through) or can't pay the tax directly. You tend to think of retired people as getting "taxed off their land". This problem could be solved by better integration of income and property taxes.
As it stands, property taxation lives in a world of its own. It tends to be unaware of the income tax. If the two tax regimes were integrated, progressive income tax would include progressive property tax.
Imagine this: [X] Is your AGI less than $10,000? If so, you owe no property tax. If you made property tax payments in 2014, you may file for a property tax refund.
An integration like this would have solved some of California's problems with out of control property taxes in the 1970s. Instead, they went the prop 13 route and opened up a whole can of worms. We're still dealing with it.
Not just no. HELL No! Hell no to retirement accounts dropping 5% every year. OK, so you'd exempt that, right? Just tax the jewelry and the Bentleys? Uh-oh... there was a tragic boating accident. My yacht sank with all that stuff on board coughForeignRegistrycough.
The rich will evade such a tax. The rest of us will get agents knocking on our doors to inventory our stuff. I remember hearing about taxes like this from old timers, where you had to inventory stuff. This is like the "use tax", which is also impractical and evaded by just about anybody without even thinking about it. If you ever bought stuff on vacation, there's a good chance you're a use tax evader.
So. These kinds of property taxes aren't particularly enforceable, and aren't particularly fair. Also, they just sort of grate on me in a very peculiar "I thought I owned that, but no you don't" kind of way. The only property tax we'll sit still for is the one on real property; and that's because you can't move it..
Prevent HIV -- put condom on penis.
Prevent ebola -- put condom on city.
Python can't hold a candle to Perl in this regard. The Perl 6 design process started in 2000.