I've been though many presidential elections and everyone has been Us vs. Them. In discussions with friends and acquaintances the debate has been spirited. But I have to say, since 2008, the discussion has not been spirited but down right confrontational and much more absolute.
A friend sent a link to one of Micheal Moore's films and I responded with some reasons I disagreed with MM's assertions. What I got back was not more discussion, but a "Fuck You" and I have not heard from that individual since.
And I have never had anyone call me a racist to my face before despite lots of debates at parties and such. But it happened in 2008 after I expressed support for McCain, and I had just met that person.
Mitt was very generous in charitable giving. Far more generous than Obama/Biden combined, both in real dollar terms and percentage terms. Then he didn't deduct all the charitable giving he was entitled to and subsequently paid a higher tax rate.
And you are unhappy why? Is your world view turned upside down now? Can't focus in the morning anymore?
I think every understands that becoming wealthy involves a little of luck, otherwise known as catching a break.
But as they say success = Opportunity + Preparation. And there are plenty of people who made the opportunity themselves too.
But to just say that you can't become wealthy with just your own determination, hard work and insight is pure bullshit. It flies in the face of hundreds of years of success in America and all over the world.
But if that's what you believe, then my friend, you will never become wealthy.
I take advantage of cheap commercial products manufactured overseas. No manufacturing plants in most cities these days
I have a hospital almost withing walking distance...also not in the city limits.
Cities are great. I can go there to buy stuff and do things. I pay for that when I do. But I see no reason to live there and put up with all their crap though. If you want to live there, go right ahead. I'm not going to stop you. Open a shop there and I'll buy stuff from you. I don't really see why you have a problem with people who don't live in the city.
Non-food goods are made in China, Mexico, and various other third world countries.
My food comes from farms in the country, most outside of city limits.
We have a hospital close by which is also not in the City. They pay fewer taxes than the city hospitals.
I have AT&T for internet and they have nothing to do with the local city.
The bottom line is we could do just fine with big cities around us. But of course, without all those farms in the country side, the city dwellers would die of starvation.
Interesting that you use the word bullshit and carbon tax together because that's what it is. I pay for my heating, electric, and transportation just like the city dwellers do, but to different people.
I call bullshit on you.
What s my fair share for "using a city"? When a city dweller goes to another city, do they have to pay their fair share? I have 4 incorporated cities around me, which do I owe my fair share to? When I "use a city" I pay sales tax as well as contributing to their tax base by sustaining the local businesses. It's no different than someone from City A going to City B.
I pay a home owners association. The board is filled with idiots, tyrants, and morons...just like a city council. A City is nothing more than than, but with tons of extra crap they saddle themselves with and boat loads of oppressive regulations.
You don't get $$$ by being lucky unless you inherit it or you hit the lottery.
People are free to move and live where they want. I suppose you want them to stay and suffer the festering blight of poverty and crime? As far as "solving the problems", name one city that has ever solved the problem. You can't solve stupid and the people causing these problems are Stupid incarnate.
I live outside a city and pay no city taxes. I pay county taxes for fire and police (County Sheriff), and a Hospital District and we have our own water district. I take no resources from the cities nearby, but I do spend my money there. When we pay off the bonds on our district, the city plans on annexing my neighborhood. So then I'll get to pay city taxes and get bum fucking nothing in return except a library card. That's when I move further away.
You people who want everyone to live crammed together in some kind of supposed utopia of harmony and efficiency are nuts. City living has it's advantages and its drawbacks and people are free to choose city, suburban or county lifestyles. Who the hell are you to say anything about their choice?
It's clear that Nakoula has been in violation of his parole conditions for quite a while if you consider the amount of time it takes to make a movie (even a crappy, amateurish one), edit, etc. One has to wonder that if he had made a movie about butterflies, would he be in jail right now? I bet not.
But the Administration saw an opportunity to make it appear to the savages that he's "doing something" about the blasphemer but at the same time be technically absolved of that charge.
We all know how easy it is to gen up some kind of violation that can put someone in jail over night or even longer. Will this be done more often in the future just to placate the batshit crazy Arabs?
If this is indeed the case, then Bill is calling for more money to be spent to educate kids who will never be able to find work because of the H1-B workers have it all locked up.
Yeah...that whole situation is a mash up of idiots.
M.S. puts in back up generators "community is outraged"...go figure.
M.S. runs the generators when expanding or otherwise disconnected from the grid. Oh My! They are using them for the purposes they were designed for.
M.S. uses less power than anticipated and will be fined, so they go ahead and use the power...for nothing. Stupid bureaucrats. That's the same thinking that is used in setting almost all government budgets, if you don't use, it, you'll lose it. In this case if you don't use it, you'll pay a fine.
But I really like this part:
“When they first start up, a big, huge cloud of black smoke comes up,” said Ronald Carden, a forklift driver at a nearby fruit warehouse. “It just kind of makes you nauseous.”
Yes, diesels smoke when you start them up. Always have. Here again, stating the obvious and pretending it's some special insight.
Developers -> QA -> Operations (Am I dating myself here?), with the project manager (or Product Manager) driving the process.
I also think developers and QA personnel should be more or less interchangeable, but that's not likely.
I would also insert a second layer of QA consisting of Project Managers and Product Managers. The primary QA guys are running regression tests and unit tests etc. You need to have someone actual sit down and drive the software too because Mercury and the like don't catch everything, especially logic and common sense things.
But the reality is almost no one has the budget for this. So the developers are doing QA themselves and helping with installs, etc.
I have an iPhone. So that's why I asked about it instead of an Android.
Besides, if Apple were to switch back to he U.S. for manufacturing ( pie in the sky, I know), then I bet many other major companies would follow. I think Apple would be able to effectively market a Made in America campaign.
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I've been though many presidential elections and everyone has been Us vs. Them. In discussions with friends and acquaintances the debate has been spirited. But I have to say, since 2008, the discussion has not been spirited but down right confrontational and much more absolute.
A friend sent a link to one of Micheal Moore's films and I responded with some reasons I disagreed with MM's assertions. What I got back was not more discussion, but a "Fuck You" and I have not heard from that individual since.
And I have never had anyone call me a racist to my face before despite lots of debates at parties and such. But it happened in 2008 after I expressed support for McCain, and I had just met that person.
People are unhinged.
Mitt was very generous in charitable giving. Far more generous than Obama/Biden combined, both in real dollar terms and percentage terms. Then he didn't deduct all the charitable giving he was entitled to and subsequently paid a higher tax rate.
And you are unhappy why? Is your world view turned upside down now? Can't focus in the morning anymore?
I think every understands that becoming wealthy involves a little of luck, otherwise known as catching a break.
But as they say success = Opportunity + Preparation. And there are plenty of people who made the opportunity themselves too.
But to just say that you can't become wealthy with just your own determination, hard work and insight is pure bullshit. It flies in the face of hundreds of years of success in America and all over the world.
But if that's what you believe, then my friend, you will never become wealthy.
I take advantage of cheap commercial products manufactured overseas. No manufacturing plants in most cities these days
I have a hospital almost withing walking distance...also not in the city limits.
Cities are great. I can go there to buy stuff and do things. I pay for that when I do. But I see no reason to live there and put up with all their crap though. If you want to live there, go right ahead. I'm not going to stop you. Open a shop there and I'll buy stuff from you. I don't really see why you have a problem with people who don't live in the city.
So...turn it into a Disneyland?
Non-food goods are made in China, Mexico, and various other third world countries.
My food comes from farms in the country, most outside of city limits.
We have a hospital close by which is also not in the City. They pay fewer taxes than the city hospitals.
I have AT&T for internet and they have nothing to do with the local city.
The bottom line is we could do just fine with big cities around us. But of course, without all those farms in the country side, the city dwellers would die of starvation.
Interesting that you use the word bullshit and carbon tax together because that's what it is. I pay for my heating, electric, and transportation just like the city dwellers do, but to different people.
I call bullshit on you.
What s my fair share for "using a city"? When a city dweller goes to another city, do they have to pay their fair share? I have 4 incorporated cities around me, which do I owe my fair share to? When I "use a city" I pay sales tax as well as contributing to their tax base by sustaining the local businesses. It's no different than someone from City A going to City B.
I pay a home owners association. The board is filled with idiots, tyrants, and morons...just like a city council. A City is nothing more than than, but with tons of extra crap they saddle themselves with and boat loads of oppressive regulations.
You don't get $$$ by being lucky unless you inherit it or you hit the lottery.
People are free to move and live where they want. I suppose you want them to stay and suffer the festering blight of poverty and crime? As far as "solving the problems", name one city that has ever solved the problem. You can't solve stupid and the people causing these problems are Stupid incarnate.
I live outside a city and pay no city taxes. I pay county taxes for fire and police (County Sheriff), and a Hospital District and we have our own water district. I take no resources from the cities nearby, but I do spend my money there. When we pay off the bonds on our district, the city plans on annexing my neighborhood. So then I'll get to pay city taxes and get bum fucking nothing in return except a library card. That's when I move further away.
You people who want everyone to live crammed together in some kind of supposed utopia of harmony and efficiency are nuts. City living has it's advantages and its drawbacks and people are free to choose city, suburban or county lifestyles. Who the hell are you to say anything about their choice?
True...Women can't really molest per-pubecent boys. Plumbing and pipe size issues and all.
How about the first Warp Drive ship?
Just looking at the headlines, men done' have a monopoly on the predation of minors.
The only difference is that the men have to work harder to get their prey, while the women's prey are more than willing and eager to be "victims".
This is why I submitted this.
It's clear that Nakoula has been in violation of his parole conditions for quite a while if you consider the amount of time it takes to make a movie (even a crappy, amateurish one), edit, etc. One has to wonder that if he had made a movie about butterflies, would he be in jail right now? I bet not.
But the Administration saw an opportunity to make it appear to the savages that he's "doing something" about the blasphemer but at the same time be technically absolved of that charge.
We all know how easy it is to gen up some kind of violation that can put someone in jail over night or even longer. Will this be done more often in the future just to placate the batshit crazy Arabs?
If this is indeed the case, then Bill is calling for more money to be spent to educate kids who will never be able to find work because of the H1-B workers have it all locked up.
Well, a near one trillion dollar market cap company has a lot of momentum.
To correctly paraphrase the AC.
I don't think Steve would have allowed such as shitty product to be released.
To paraphrase the AC.
I don't think Steve would have allowed such as shitty product to completely be release.
This is probably the beginning of many such goofs as Apple ceases to be Apple and becomes just another giant technology company.
Steve was the nuclear fire that drove Apple. With the fire out, like a White Dwarf star, Apple will now simply fade away in the coming decades.
Sad.
Having lived in CA and driven on the freeways, I can say that you don't need "self driving" cars for the freeways.
All you need is a car that can self park and you are good to go...or...not go.
Or, maybe here?
Hmmm...where have I seen this before?
Yeah...that whole situation is a mash up of idiots.
M.S. puts in back up generators "community is outraged"...go figure.
M.S. runs the generators when expanding or otherwise disconnected from the grid. Oh My! They are using them for the purposes they were designed for.
M.S. uses less power than anticipated and will be fined, so they go ahead and use the power...for nothing. Stupid bureaucrats. That's the same thinking that is used in setting almost all government budgets, if you don't use, it, you'll lose it. In this case if you don't use it, you'll pay a fine.
But I really like this part:
“When they first start up, a big, huge cloud of black smoke comes up,” said Ronald Carden, a forklift driver at a nearby fruit warehouse. “It just kind of makes you nauseous.”
Yes, diesels smoke when you start them up. Always have. Here again, stating the obvious and pretending it's some special insight.
Idiot reporters.
Developers -> QA -> Operations (Am I dating myself here?), with the project manager (or Product Manager) driving the process.
I also think developers and QA personnel should be more or less interchangeable, but that's not likely.
I would also insert a second layer of QA consisting of Project Managers and Product Managers. The primary QA guys are running regression tests and unit tests etc. You need to have someone actual sit down and drive the software too because Mercury and the like don't catch everything, especially logic and common sense things.
But the reality is almost no one has the budget for this. So the developers are doing QA themselves and helping with installs, etc.
You and an AC get the prize for actually answering the question. And you are only $25 different.
I have an iPhone. So that's why I asked about it instead of an Android.
Besides, if Apple were to switch back to he U.S. for manufacturing ( pie in the sky, I know), then I bet many other major companies would follow. I think Apple would be able to effectively market a Made in America campaign.
I don't know. That's why I ask.
Makes me wonder how much an iPhone would cost to manufacture in the U.S. I wonder how automated the production line could be.