From TFA: -- so much so that it is able to replace most, if not all, automobile trips.
Stupidest thing I've read in a while. I'm gonna jump in this thing in my fancy Tight Suit and ride the 12 miles to work in August when it's 105 degrees.
If very citizen had a gun, then those packs of roving looters would be well armed, so there would be wild-west style shootouts in the street between the good guys and the bad guys.
Those roving packs of looters are well armed.
And the old Wild West Shootout meme is so old and tired, you mama stopped using it when she was a kid.
Actually, it's because of government sponsored healthcare. The type that is wholly a for-profit enterprise, such as Lasik, consistently gets cheaper. When the government gets involved, the prices go up.
No, it isn't "for profit" per se that causes the high prices. It begins with the way consumers perceive their insurance plan. They see the insurance payment as a sunk cost, and don't really want to spend any less than the maximum that the company will pay. In addition, most people are willing to pay extra out of their own pocket to get better equipment, so the hearing aid companies set their prices to encourage that. The medical device designation is a significant barrier to entry, and so minimizes competition. These factors combine to set the price.
Because I have no mod points, I'm posting the AC's comment because it is spot on.
Because the "cattle to slaughter" analogy is unfortunately based on actual events. First that comes to mind is Virginia Tech, where they literally were lined up against the wall and shot one by one. Look at most mass shootings and there is some element of that.
I may sound like that to someone who is deathly afraid of a guns and think that they have some magical power over their owners that cause them to go on some ruthless killing spree. In other words, ignorant.
All my statement was is that you need to take responsibility for yourself and those around you. Some people are fine with having a gun pointed at them and being relieved of their possessions. You may not even think about whether or not the perp will kill you for the thrill, to cover up the crime, or whatever reason...because they do and more often than you think.
Others take exception to that and elect not to take the chance that the guy is a crazy. Of course you do need to be smart yourself. Follow all the laws and rules for coming out of such encounters alive, including giving up your phone. But when they guy becomes violent, you may have no choice but to protect yourself and you better have the means and the know how to do so.
Don't know. But they are out there. So you need protect yourself. It's not about your cell phone. It's about the nut job with a gun who wants.
Now, you could be one of those people who would let a gunman line you up against the wall and shoot one by one while you coware and plead for your life. But there are plenty of people who refuse to go out like cattle to the slaughter and, if they HAVE to be shot, they'd rather get it in the chest instead of the back I'd the head.
I wonder how long it would last if the muggers started ending up dead. San Fran is a "gun free" zone. So the perps know their victims are probably not packing.
Sure, it's just a cell phone and not worth taking someone's life. But that's not the issue. The issue is that the scum trying to take it from you definitely thinks a cell phone is worth taking YOUR life.
The real danger is that some jackass judge from the northeastern states or more likely in LalaLand California, who believes that it is appropriate and necessary to consider FOREIGN laws and precedence when deliberating American laws and precedence, will open the litigation floodgates here in the U.S.
On its date of publication (May 1996), Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as "a pastiche of Left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense . . . structured around the silliest quotations [by postmodernist academics] he could find about mathematics and physics".[2]
He would sooo be hauled out and crucified if he tried this today and characterized the content "Left-wing".
I seem to recall, from reading about other similar situations, that the British government considers all finds of this nature to be the property of the government. Kind of like how in the U.S. the Feds now consider anything that falls from the sky and lands on Federal land to be federal property.
For some reason the Feds were pissed meteorite collectors were making money off of rocks from the sky and they weren't.
2 is more rounded than 5, which is actually kind of squarish at the top. Yes, it is round at the bottom, but 2 has more rounding overall than the bottom of 5.
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An Open Source Bulldozer?
I think these Open Source evangelists are going a bit off their rocker.
From TFA:
-- so much so that it is able to replace most, if not all, automobile trips.
Stupidest thing I've read in a while. I'm gonna jump in this thing in my fancy Tight Suit and ride the 12 miles to work in August when it's 105 degrees.
Ok, right.
If very citizen had a gun, then those packs of roving looters would be well armed, so there would be wild-west style shootouts in the street between the good guys and the bad guys.
Those roving packs of looters are well armed.
And the old Wild West Shootout meme is so old and tired, you mama stopped using it when she was a kid.
"Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday"
That's good! Now people can jump on the internet and...oh...wait...
I want to make love explo....
ahhh...fuck it. time for bed. I have web apps to write tomorrow.
Because it's complex, what the should have done was send an army of auditors armed with a law stating cooperate or go do jail.
Accounting techniques can make a money loser seem like a money winner and visa-verse.
Actually, it's because of government sponsored healthcare. The type that is wholly a for-profit enterprise, such as Lasik, consistently gets cheaper. When the government gets involved, the prices go up.
Reposting because it's spot on.
No, it isn't "for profit" per se that causes the high prices. It begins with the way consumers perceive their insurance plan. They see the insurance payment as a sunk cost, and don't really want to spend any less than the maximum that the company will pay. In addition, most people are willing to pay extra out of their own pocket to get better equipment, so the hearing aid companies set their prices to encourage that. The medical device designation is a significant barrier to entry, and so minimizes competition. These factors combine to set the price.
Because I have no mod points, I'm posting the AC's comment because it is spot on.
They've been dumbing down all the other tests, so why not his one?
Not that many of them can actually write.
Would putting up a bill board in South Central LA that says Drive By Shootings are a Felony, would that be racist?
You people are just plain losing it. Get yer blood pressure checked.
1. Bush did prosecute.
2. BP bargained and a conviction was all set.
3. Eric Holder and Obama dropped all the charges.
Because the "cattle to slaughter" analogy is unfortunately based on actual events. First that comes to mind is Virginia Tech, where they literally were lined up against the wall and shot one by one. Look at most mass shootings and there is some element of that.
Stop! Drop whatever it is you are fucking doing RIGHT NOW because whatever it is, some scientists you are going to fuck some other shit up.
Just freeze and don't move, or we're all going to fucking DIE!
You're right your finished. Out of ideas and arguments.
Think twice before you jump in and start calling people names. Asshole.
Says the Sara Brady goon.
You don't want to carry a gun and/or defend yourself, go ahead. I don't care.
I may sound like that to someone who is deathly afraid of a guns and think that they have some magical power over their owners that cause them to go on some ruthless killing spree. In other words, ignorant.
All my statement was is that you need to take responsibility for yourself and those around you. Some people are fine with having a gun pointed at them and being relieved of their possessions. You may not even think about whether or not the perp will kill you for the thrill, to cover up the crime, or whatever reason...because they do and more often than you think.
Others take exception to that and elect not to take the chance that the guy is a crazy. Of course you do need to be smart yourself. Follow all the laws and rules for coming out of such encounters alive, including giving up your phone. But when they guy becomes violent, you may have no choice but to protect yourself and you better have the means and the know how to do so.
Don't know. But they are out there. So you need protect yourself. It's not about your cell phone. It's about the nut job with a gun who wants.
Now, you could be one of those people who would let a gunman line you up against the wall and shoot one by one while you coware and plead for your life. But there are plenty of people who refuse to go out like cattle to the slaughter and, if they HAVE to be shot, they'd rather get it in the chest instead of the back I'd the head.
I wonder how long it would last if the muggers started ending up dead. San Fran is a "gun free" zone. So the perps know their victims are probably not packing.
Sure, it's just a cell phone and not worth taking someone's life. But that's not the issue. The issue is that the scum trying to take it from you definitely thinks a cell phone is worth taking YOUR life.
The real danger is that some jackass judge from the northeastern states or more likely in LalaLand California, who believes that it is appropriate and necessary to consider FOREIGN laws and precedence when deliberating American laws and precedence, will open the litigation floodgates here in the U.S.
On its date of publication (May 1996), Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as "a pastiche of Left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense . . . structured around the silliest quotations [by postmodernist academics] he could find about mathematics and physics".[2]
He would sooo be hauled out and crucified if he tried this today and characterized the content "Left-wing".
I bet the config file (Which one? I don't know) is about 100 pages long.
You have apparently not used many of their products.
I seem to recall, from reading about other similar situations, that the British government considers all finds of this nature to be the property of the government. Kind of like how in the U.S. the Feds now consider anything that falls from the sky and lands on Federal land to be federal property.
For some reason the Feds were pissed meteorite collectors were making money off of rocks from the sky and they weren't.
2 is more rounded than 5, which is actually kind of squarish at the top. Yes, it is round at the bottom, but 2 has more rounding overall than the bottom of 5.
Excuse me, time for another Vicodin.