Good students with poor parents get scholarships, which if colleges couldn't charge so much because of the existence of student loans would work even better.
Yet again America screws up the simplest of things
Just like no one held a gun to the heads of the idiots who refinanced their house so they could go on vacation.
But expecting to not have to live up to your agreements is the American way I guess.
Imagine how pissed he will be when (after adjusting for inflation) he sees people paying 1/10th of what he paid after the student loan system goes belly up and colleges suddenly have to charge market prices instead of inflated government subsidy prices. That will likely be tempered some by seeing that fixed rate debt evaporate to inflation I guess.
And he's an idiot since student loans are essentially credit card debt not mortgage debt - there's no security. If all those bankruptcy special cases weren't there then they'd be running at 25%.
Note, I have nothing against vaccines. My kid got a flu vaccine this year and is up to date on all his other ones. I'm not an anti-vaccine nut who think that all our health issues are caused by vaccines:)
If you missed 2-3 days work then it wasn't the flu anyway. So it must have been coincidental.
Personally, I've never ever had a flu vaccine. But I don't think I've ever had the flu either, certainly not in the last 15 years. Sure, flue-like-symptoms but only for a few days at a time.
Well one time went for longer, but that turned out to be sinusitis, and my god did those headaches hurt.
Except that people make decisions and don't really care if something is just "affiliated".
Microsoft and Google bid for the "cloud computing" "office" contract at some company. Do you really think Google isn't going to mention, with a bunch of references, this screw up?
With quotes from press releases like:
We have determined that the outage was caused by a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up.
Roz Ho Corporate Vice President Premium Mobile Experiences, Microsoft Corporation
I thought I'd seen every episode; what episode had a civilian trial? The only trials I saw in Star Trek were Q judging humanity and courts martial of starfleet personnel (Spock and Pike, Whether or not Data is sentient, Wesley after the piloting accident in the academy). Did Sisko's dad get arrested for spanking Jake or something?
Again, where is this spelled out? Yes, the military owns the communicators that military personell in the starships use, but I don't see any indication of the military controlling communication and transportation. I have almost all the episodes (except the last season of Voyager and the gawdoffal "Enterprise"), point to an episode?
In DS9 every use communication starts and ends with the starfleet logo, even for the civilians.
And the DS9 tech manual states that the subspace relay system is entirely Federation owned.
How many private space craft have you seen owned by Federation civilians? Quark has one, but of course he isn't Federation but that proves they aren't so expensive that only the government can own them.
In Paradise Lost, again, where's the mad rush as civilians try and flee a crisis in their private ships. Oh there isn't one, because they obviously don't have any private space craft.
Why are all the evacuation crisis in various episodes serviced by military starships?
Sisko's dad's restaraunt is government owned? What episode do they say that?
So you are saying there wasn't a non-directly government owned restaurant in all of the USSR? Could he sell the restaurant whenever he wanted, convert it into something else, etc, etc. We don't know how much government involvement there was.
We do know that private space craft are *much* less common under the Federation than under non-Federation governments. We know communication is controlled by the government since they own the relay network and in DS9 have the ability to snoop on the civilian communication at will.
Obviously most of what we see are the military in the first place, but DS9 gives some indication of what life is like for Federation citizens.
But I'm just regurgitating arguments I've heard before. My limited Star Trek watching gave me the impression of a communist military state, but given you really only see military life that's not that unexpected. But I haven't exactly spent time studying this:)
Yes lots of people do strange things like go watch a movie, go to a bar, go to a restaurant, go to the grocery store, etc. on their way home from work.
Students sometimes even go watch a movie after studying at the library and so on.
There's no plan to use the laptop, they just don't want to leave it in the car to get stolen. Or they're catching the subway and don't have a car to put it in.
I should also mention, that I consider it a given that is people are going to scavenge nuclear waste dumps for nuclear materials they aren't going to be too scared to use breeder reactors and transmute things.
Assuming they still use our current nuclear fission tech in 100 years time.
Yes we want things which go critical and self sustain fission reactions. I'm not so sure that will always be the desired properties. Radioisotope generators are simpler than fission reactors (though of course much smaller scale) and if we didn't all not like getting cancer lots of radioactive waste would work just fine for that...
Logging in as guest could set a flag to clear the user account at logout. A hard boot doesn't clear the flag (because it is on disk somewhere) and the user logs in as the Admin next, then when they log out the flag triggers and bye-bye.
Of course that would be a stupid implementation. The OS should clear the Guest at login time. Note, I'm not saying this is how Apple did it, I have no idea and don't own a any apple hardware anyway.
But such a thing wouldn't be a flaw in the security mechanism. The OS writes updates the flag and does the clean out, the guest account didn't set it or clear it or have access to it. The guest account can't do its own cleanup since then it would be possible to make it not do so since the Guest user has access to the Guest account stuff.
It'd be the world's stupidist way to implement such a feature of course.
Best just to put it in a big hole for future generations.
If it's really that bad it must be more radioactive than plain old uranium ore (since otherwise putting it back in the ground would be a no brainer) and hence it would be a better fuel source.
At least we can leave something for the great-grand children. And nuclear waste piles seems like the ideal gift.
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Good students with poor parents get scholarships, which if colleges couldn't charge so much because of the existence of student loans would work even better.
Yet again America screws up the simplest of things
and made you sign up for the loans.
Just like no one held a gun to the heads of the idiots who refinanced their house so they could go on vacation.
But expecting to not have to live up to your agreements is the American way I guess.
Imagine how pissed he will be when (after adjusting for inflation) he sees people paying 1/10th of what he paid after the student loan system goes belly up and colleges suddenly have to charge market prices instead of inflated government subsidy prices. That will likely be tempered some by seeing that fixed rate debt evaporate to inflation I guess.
And he's an idiot since student loans are essentially credit card debt not mortgage debt - there's no security. If all those bankruptcy special cases weren't there then they'd be running at 25%.
If it only last 2-3 days and you get it twice in a season on multiple occasions it unlikely it was influenza.
Have you got a reference to a double blind study done on high risk people comparing placebo and a flu vaccine?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10498559 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7966893 are the best I can find, which do seem to contradict the claims in the article.
Note, I have nothing against vaccines. My kid got a flu vaccine this year and is up to date on all his other ones. I'm not an anti-vaccine nut who think that all our health issues are caused by vaccines :)
And that study is exactly what they proposed doing, but it was declared to be unethical and hence can't be done.
If you missed 2-3 days work then it wasn't the flu anyway. So it must have been coincidental.
Personally, I've never ever had a flu vaccine. But I don't think I've ever had the flu either, certainly not in the last 15 years. Sure, flue-like-symptoms but only for a few days at a time.
Well one time went for longer, but that turned out to be sinusitis, and my god did those headaches hurt.
And since they apparently haven't done the studies needed to show that your understanding is wrong. Or the article is wrong, of course.
Radiation is generally bad for you, but we use it as a medical treatment.
Pick your favorite medical prescription, now eat 10 lbs of it. Oh look it's bad for you.
So don't ever post threatening messages to the a bingo forum about how you aren't letting Mary back into your bingo game.
You just got a Change(tm), with some free Hope(tm).
Also the minor point that it isn't playing the game, or communicating the information to players.
No, because it isn't unlawful in the first place.
Except that people make decisions and don't really care if something is just "affiliated".
Microsoft and Google bid for the "cloud computing" "office" contract at some company. Do you really think Google isn't going to mention, with a bunch of references, this screw up?
With quotes from press releases like:
in big bold blocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Bashir,_I_Presume%3F civilian sentenced by a military judge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine) - there's no way you can pull off a complete news blackout without controlling all communications.
In DS9 every use communication starts and ends with the starfleet logo, even for the civilians.
And the DS9 tech manual states that the subspace relay system is entirely Federation owned.
How many private space craft have you seen owned by Federation civilians? Quark has one, but of course he isn't Federation but that proves they aren't so expensive that only the government can own them.
In Paradise Lost, again, where's the mad rush as civilians try and flee a crisis in their private ships. Oh there isn't one, because they obviously don't have any private space craft.
Why are all the evacuation crisis in various episodes serviced by military starships?
So you are saying there wasn't a non-directly government owned restaurant in all of the USSR? Could he sell the restaurant whenever he wanted, convert it into something else, etc, etc. We don't know how much government involvement there was.
We do know that private space craft are *much* less common under the Federation than under non-Federation governments. We know communication is controlled by the government since they own the relay network and in DS9 have the ability to snoop on the civilian communication at will.
Obviously most of what we see are the military in the first place, but DS9 gives some indication of what life is like for Federation citizens.
But I'm just regurgitating arguments I've heard before. My limited Star Trek watching gave me the impression of a communist military state, but given you really only see military life that's not that unexpected. But I haven't exactly spent time studying this :)
They do, they also saw an article saying that it will always fail due to the Universe not wanting to see a Higgs boson.
So they manned up and found a way to make the black hole without also making a Higgs boson and hence condemning themselves to failure via time travel.
Yes lots of people do strange things like go watch a movie, go to a bar, go to a restaurant, go to the grocery store, etc. on their way home from work.
Students sometimes even go watch a movie after studying at the library and so on.
There's no plan to use the laptop, they just don't want to leave it in the car to get stolen. Or they're catching the subway and don't have a car to put it in.
The USSR had elected officials.
Star Fleet judges seem to rule in civilian courts, so clearly the military run the legal system.
The government/military controls all communication and transportation.
There are clearly no privacy rights, the government/military snoops on whatever it wants.
All the trading seen is done in a black market currency.
And there isn't any more private property visible in Star Trek than there was in the USSR.
It reeks of a soviet style communist state.
And that fact that a small core of the military can actually nearly do that makes you think it isn't essentially a military run state?
That appears to be evidence for the military running everything. The USSR had a civilian government too.
No, email is best effort delivery.
Seems to be a pretty standard communist military run state to me.
I'm sure they look great if you see them through the eyes of those reasonably high up the chain in the military too.
I should also mention, that I consider it a given that is people are going to scavenge nuclear waste dumps for nuclear materials they aren't going to be too scared to use breeder reactors and transmute things.
Assuming they still use our current nuclear fission tech in 100 years time.
Yes we want things which go critical and self sustain fission reactions. I'm not so sure that will always be the desired properties. Radioisotope generators are simpler than fission reactors (though of course much smaller scale) and if we didn't all not like getting cancer lots of radioactive waste would work just fine for that...
It's software. How is writing code for banks any less boring? Or for pharmaceutical companies? Or for
Why?
Logging in as guest could set a flag to clear the user account at logout. A hard boot doesn't clear the flag (because it is on disk somewhere) and the user logs in as the Admin next, then when they log out the flag triggers and bye-bye.
Of course that would be a stupid implementation. The OS should clear the Guest at login time. Note, I'm not saying this is how Apple did it, I have no idea and don't own a any apple hardware anyway.
But such a thing wouldn't be a flaw in the security mechanism. The OS writes updates the flag and does the clean out, the guest account didn't set it or clear it or have access to it. The guest account can't do its own cleanup since then it would be possible to make it not do so since the Guest user has access to the Guest account stuff.
It'd be the world's stupidist way to implement such a feature of course.
Best just to put it in a big hole for future generations.
If it's really that bad it must be more radioactive than plain old uranium ore (since otherwise putting it back in the ground would be a no brainer) and hence it would be a better fuel source.
At least we can leave something for the great-grand children. And nuclear waste piles seems like the ideal gift.
But I was trying to make a joke...