Now reading from RT https://www.rt.com/news/383807.... The US managed to kill 2 civilians, three soldiers and injure seven others (so obviously the Syrians were fully aware of the attack and it looks like one of the missiles went a little astray), with a claim of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles fired, with an approximate cost of $1.59 million each https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., excluding firing costs, for a total cost of $93.81 million, excluding firing costs, operation of vessels and crew, which could really blow that figure out, likely double. So who was punishing whom for what is looking like a false flag gas attack (did the US government just roundly punish US taxpayers), although people really did die but it is looking like they were kidnap victims from pro-Syrian government villages who were murdered. So all in all, just what the fuck is going on, this is looking all sorts of crazy. A profitable day for Raytheon McDonald Douglas but it makes the US look like a pack of idiots. So panic of the Obama spying on Trump disclosures, the Clintons are feeling prosecutorial heat, Trump has been set up for impeachment with an attack upon another country without Congressional or US approval or Raytheon McDonald Douglas, were bitching because profits for this quarter are a little low and demanded expenditure. Make no mistake, the attack was clearly rushed because the false flag story was falling apart and now the evidence will expose Uncle Toms Obama's Syrian rape brigades as the actual culprits and Trump will be blamed for acting with congressional approval, what a stupid debacle. It seems very much like the US spent more money than the damage they caused, especially when the US government values foreign people with brown skins at $2,500 per https://www.theguardian.com/wo....
The goal wasn't to kill people, it was to make it harder for Syria to undertake attacks like this in the future. So you take out hangars, fuel depots, aircraft, and runways. And when you are hitting an airfield, you don't just hit it once and call it a day. You have to put multiple craters on every runway as well as damage ramp areas and support facilities. One crater on a runway can be prepared pretty quickly. You put holes all along every runway and you knock that base out for weeks at least.
The reports from people who engaged in cannibalism, (like the survivors of the Donner party).... say that human flesh is not all that tasty.
Well of course it didn't taste all that good. It was freezer burned and barely cooked over an open fire. Now, get some human flesh harvested at the right time, age it properly, season it, maybe braise it, and served with a good sauce and add a side and you've got yourself a meal. Make sure you source it properly though: I hear caged human flesh is a lot tougher than the free-range kind.
Obama pulled them out on the timetable that was agreed upon by Bush and the Iraqi government. Iraq would not allow an extension for a large number of troops with immunity as the US demanded.
Huckabee has said that it is treason to go against your government. Someone needs to tell him that treason is committed against a country, not a government.
How many movies made you care about the enemy bodycount?
Maybe John Wick? I remember that being a selling point. Great movie, too. Haven't seen the sequel yet.
Shoot 'em Up. Largest body count since Saving Private Ryan, but so over the top it's actually pretty good. 4 words: sky diving gun fight. Also, you'll never look at carrots the same way ever again, and Paul Giamotti makes a pretty good evil assassin.
Those stories aren't about war, they're about the depravity and inhumanity that can live inside all of us.
Yes, but adaptations can add themes to varying effect. As it turns out, it's pretty easy to set a story about "the depravity and inhumanity that can live inside all of us" in a war.
That's true, but let's go back to the source material. Heart of Darkness takes place not during war, but during European colonization and exploitation of Africa (which was certainly violent and had plenty of wars-and the boat is attacked in Heart of Darkness). It attempts to show what can happen to people when societal norms are stripped away, where a person has absolute freedom and control over life and death of others. No societal pressure to conform to any sort of moral view, no one to reproach you or question your actions. It just so happens that today, the only way you can really get in a situation like that is through war, so that is the medium you have to use to tell the story.
Go play Spec Ops: The Line. The entire game is a criticism of glorification of war and the people who play games that do so.
The entire game is literally a Middle East-set Apocalypse Now, which is itself an adaptation of Heart of Darkness. Those stories aren't about war, they're about the depravity and inhumanity that can live inside all of us.
Link or not, I do think videogames are still too one-dimensional in dealing out death. Also I really don't get why male teenie fantasies have to evolve around the closest approximation to real war we can produce. Battlefield 1 was the pinnacle: Celebrating the massakre that WW1 war as something enjoyable left an awkward taste behind.
The problem is BF1, which I enjoy playing, doesn't even show the horrors of that war. I was really disappointed that the single player missions did not have a single instance of actual trench warfare. No "over the top" type charge where you are literally walking through a storm of bullets, seeing people all around you just drop dead, trekking over a pockmarked and muddy landscape littered with dismembered and decaying corpses. No setting in a dugout weathering an artillery bombardment and subsequent gas attack, having to defend your trench half blind and choking from the gas. Their only attempt was that prologue where you are intended to die, and every time you do you jump to a new soldier. For a game about a war that saw millions of combatants and millions of deaths, you spend a surprising amount of the single player campaign on your own. They missed a really big chance to show just how horrible WWI really was.
Perhaps an uber-like system operating minibuses would be ideal. Finland was trying something like this. There were no set bus lines/routes. People just asked for a ride and the system would build the route on the fly.
Here's a cheaper idea: keep the bus stops, but wire every stop with a button that someone can push when they need a pickup. This then flags the stop on a display for the driver so that they know to stop at that stop. For people already on the bus they can have buttons at each seat that tells the driver they want to get off at the next stop. this way, instead of slowing down and stopping at every stop whether it is needed or not, the bus only stops when someone needs to get on or off. This would save fuel, time, and reduce traffic buildup behind the buses. Should work really well for smaller towns where a bus might only have a few riders at a time.
Well now I'm working a stable job for one of the largest employers in my metro area, get regular raises and profit sharing, and am building a very good reputation in my division . So I'm in a good place now, probably a lot better than many others my age
And if I can pile on, what the heck were you doing getting a Master's? Everyone I've ever met getting a Master's Degree was either going into teaching, or putting off real life. The ROI on a Masters is dismal or non-existent.
I wanted to get into government work, and the advice I had from someone who was actually in the line of work I wanted to get into suggested getting a Master's. Plus, my undergrad degree is in a major that really is pretty useless (History-it was both a passion of mine and a stepping stone to my Master's). But as I said, right around the time I was ready to graduate, a lot of former military were entering the workforce so I was screwed.
Actually I had the perfect degree for the job I wanted to do, because I wanted a government job. But then right as I was finishing up my degree there was the massive drawdown in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of my experience was theoretical, no way I could compete with actual experience. And medical issues prevented me from applying for other jobs In the same field. Currently I am a married homeowner with 2 paid off cars. I make about $26 an hour and my wife makes about $13 an hour. Our biggest expense after the mortgage is my loan, which is about 1/3 the mortgage payment since we make too much to qualify for any repayment plan.
If you spend 100 hours to earn a $5000 prize, is that really any different than working for a real company at $50/hr?
For a real company, I'm guaranteed the $50/hr even if I'm sick that day.
It's different because you can work in your pajamas if you want to, and after you spend your 5 days of hacking you can take 2 weeks off before the next one and still earn the same money as the guy that works 40 hours/week.
Doesn't that assume you win, though? If you lose, you've basically worked for free.
Come on you guys, it's not THAT hard to pay off debt. All it takes is a reasonable job
I'll stop you right there, as you've hit on the issue. It is difficult for recent grads to find reasonable jobs these days. In my personal experience, after I got my Master's degree the only job I could find was one paying $13 an hour (which I only got because I had been working with that company part time since I started college). From there, with my education I was able to get a new job within the company that doubled my salary, but until I did I was barely able to make any type of loan payment. And while my degree wasn't as marketable as, say, engineering, it's still pretty useful. I just happened to graduate at a time where a lot of people who might as well be a protected class were entering the workforce as well, competing for the jobs I applied for.
Because the properties list their rates before hand and are already pricing based on demand. You dont have to outbid somebody else for it.
It's all the fun of putting in an offer to buy a house without the joy of actually having a chance of walking away with a house and some equity. It's like practice for homebuying!
"rent-seeking" usually refers to entities that benefit from government mandates. This is not the case here.
Typically yes, but it is not solely from government sources. From wikipedia: "Rent-seeking implies extraction of uncompensated value from others without making any contribution to productivity." Basically any type of middle-man arrangement with no real added value is rent seeking. In fact, this is worse than a middle man if you consider their long-term goal of charging off of the difference (either way) from the original asking price: their ideal situation is one is which one party gets a decidedly sub-optimal outcome, thereby creating negative value.
Making America great again by "encouraging low- and mid-level jobs to go to American workers"? How about "enabling American workers to fill highly qualified positions"?
5 more jobs paying 50k each is better than 1 job paying 250k. Those 5 guys at 50k are using that money to buy a house, pay rent, eat out, and go on vacations. The guy making 250k is tying most of that money up, either in overpriced real estate or putting it in a bank/stocks. You help the economy by putting money into circulation, which means it needs to be spent.
if true you can usually get some lowest price warranty on the bargain web site
Most of the time for the hotel I'm looking at, the lowest price on the bargain site is the same as the price offered by the hotel chain to their loyalty club members. So there's really no reason to use the bargain sites except, as someone above said, as an initial filter to find one in the area that meets your budget.
I think Patruck is more worried about what reclassification would do to the longterm survival of his cushy Executive Director job at the Save the Manatees Club than he is the survival of the manatees.
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Now reading from RT https://www.rt.com/news/383807.... The US managed to kill 2 civilians, three soldiers and injure seven others (so obviously the Syrians were fully aware of the attack and it looks like one of the missiles went a little astray), with a claim of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles fired, with an approximate cost of $1.59 million each https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., excluding firing costs, for a total cost of $93.81 million, excluding firing costs, operation of vessels and crew, which could really blow that figure out, likely double. So who was punishing whom for what is looking like a false flag gas attack (did the US government just roundly punish US taxpayers), although people really did die but it is looking like they were kidnap victims from pro-Syrian government villages who were murdered. So all in all, just what the fuck is going on, this is looking all sorts of crazy. A profitable day for Raytheon McDonald Douglas but it makes the US look like a pack of idiots. So panic of the Obama spying on Trump disclosures, the Clintons are feeling prosecutorial heat, Trump has been set up for impeachment with an attack upon another country without Congressional or US approval or Raytheon McDonald Douglas, were bitching because profits for this quarter are a little low and demanded expenditure. Make no mistake, the attack was clearly rushed because the false flag story was falling apart and now the evidence will expose Uncle Toms Obama's Syrian rape brigades as the actual culprits and Trump will be blamed for acting with congressional approval, what a stupid debacle. It seems very much like the US spent more money than the damage they caused, especially when the US government values foreign people with brown skins at $2,500 per https://www.theguardian.com/wo....
The goal wasn't to kill people, it was to make it harder for Syria to undertake attacks like this in the future. So you take out hangars, fuel depots, aircraft, and runways. And when you are hitting an airfield, you don't just hit it once and call it a day. You have to put multiple craters on every runway as well as damage ramp areas and support facilities. One crater on a runway can be prepared pretty quickly. You put holes all along every runway and you knock that base out for weeks at least.
The reports from people who engaged in cannibalism, (like the survivors of the Donner party).... say that human flesh is not all that tasty.
Well of course it didn't taste all that good. It was freezer burned and barely cooked over an open fire. Now, get some human flesh harvested at the right time, age it properly, season it, maybe braise it, and served with a good sauce and add a side and you've got yourself a meal. Make sure you source it properly though: I hear caged human flesh is a lot tougher than the free-range kind.
Obama pulled them out on the timetable that was agreed upon by Bush and the Iraqi government. Iraq would not allow an extension for a large number of troops with immunity as the US demanded.
Huckabee has said that it is treason to go against your government. Someone needs to tell him that treason is committed against a country, not a government.
If your phone has the "touch disease" Apple will admit its their fault and fix it for you for $149.
If they are admitting fault then why are they charging you for the repair?
How many movies made you care about the enemy bodycount?
Maybe John Wick? I remember that being a selling point. Great movie, too. Haven't seen the sequel yet.
Shoot 'em Up. Largest body count since Saving Private Ryan, but so over the top it's actually pretty good. 4 words: sky diving gun fight. Also, you'll never look at carrots the same way ever again, and Paul Giamotti makes a pretty good evil assassin.
Those stories aren't about war, they're about the depravity and inhumanity that can live inside all of us.
Yes, but adaptations can add themes to varying effect. As it turns out, it's pretty easy to set a story about "the depravity and inhumanity that can live inside all of us" in a war.
That's true, but let's go back to the source material. Heart of Darkness takes place not during war, but during European colonization and exploitation of Africa (which was certainly violent and had plenty of wars-and the boat is attacked in Heart of Darkness). It attempts to show what can happen to people when societal norms are stripped away, where a person has absolute freedom and control over life and death of others. No societal pressure to conform to any sort of moral view, no one to reproach you or question your actions. It just so happens that today, the only way you can really get in a situation like that is through war, so that is the medium you have to use to tell the story.
Go play Spec Ops: The Line. The entire game is a criticism of glorification of war and the people who play games that do so.
The entire game is literally a Middle East-set Apocalypse Now, which is itself an adaptation of Heart of Darkness. Those stories aren't about war, they're about the depravity and inhumanity that can live inside all of us.
Link or not, I do think videogames are still too one-dimensional in dealing out death. Also I really don't get why male teenie fantasies have to evolve around the closest approximation to real war we can produce. Battlefield 1 was the pinnacle: Celebrating the massakre that WW1 war as something enjoyable left an awkward taste behind.
The problem is BF1, which I enjoy playing, doesn't even show the horrors of that war. I was really disappointed that the single player missions did not have a single instance of actual trench warfare. No "over the top" type charge where you are literally walking through a storm of bullets, seeing people all around you just drop dead, trekking over a pockmarked and muddy landscape littered with dismembered and decaying corpses. No setting in a dugout weathering an artillery bombardment and subsequent gas attack, having to defend your trench half blind and choking from the gas. Their only attempt was that prologue where you are intended to die, and every time you do you jump to a new soldier. For a game about a war that saw millions of combatants and millions of deaths, you spend a surprising amount of the single player campaign on your own. They missed a really big chance to show just how horrible WWI really was.
Perhaps an uber-like system operating minibuses would be ideal. Finland was trying something like this. There were no set bus lines/routes. People just asked for a ride and the system would build the route on the fly.
Here's a cheaper idea: keep the bus stops, but wire every stop with a button that someone can push when they need a pickup. This then flags the stop on a display for the driver so that they know to stop at that stop. For people already on the bus they can have buttons at each seat that tells the driver they want to get off at the next stop. this way, instead of slowing down and stopping at every stop whether it is needed or not, the bus only stops when someone needs to get on or off. This would save fuel, time, and reduce traffic buildup behind the buses. Should work really well for smaller towns where a bus might only have a few riders at a time.
Well now I'm working a stable job for one of the largest employers in my metro area, get regular raises and profit sharing, and am building a very good reputation in my division . So I'm in a good place now, probably a lot better than many others my age
And if I can pile on, what the heck were you doing getting a Master's? Everyone I've ever met getting a Master's Degree was either going into teaching, or putting off real life. The ROI on a Masters is dismal or non-existent.
I wanted to get into government work, and the advice I had from someone who was actually in the line of work I wanted to get into suggested getting a Master's. Plus, my undergrad degree is in a major that really is pretty useless (History-it was both a passion of mine and a stepping stone to my Master's). But as I said, right around the time I was ready to graduate, a lot of former military were entering the workforce so I was screwed.
Actually I had the perfect degree for the job I wanted to do, because I wanted a government job. But then right as I was finishing up my degree there was the massive drawdown in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of my experience was theoretical, no way I could compete with actual experience. And medical issues prevented me from applying for other jobs In the same field. Currently I am a married homeowner with 2 paid off cars. I make about $26 an hour and my wife makes about $13 an hour. Our biggest expense after the mortgage is my loan, which is about 1/3 the mortgage payment since we make too much to qualify for any repayment plan.
1. Nice, but still easily enjoyable on a regular TV
2. Loud, crowded, if you need to go to the bathroom you have to move in front of people or, if you sit on the end, people are always disturbing you.
3. If you lose focus at home, just rewind
4. At home you can rewatch a particularly enjoyable/tense/scary scene
5. That is usually too loud
6. Unskippable ads
7. What's more disrupting than missing part of the movie to get a refill, go to the bathroom, or have other people distracting you?
8. How do you have quality alone time in a room full of people?
9. Or go to the store and get a 2-liter for half the price of theater drinks, not to mention whatever food/snack you like
10. Who gives a shit?
If you spend 100 hours to earn a $5000 prize, is that really any different than working for a real company at $50/hr?
For a real company, I'm guaranteed the $50/hr even if I'm sick that day.
It's different because you can work in your pajamas if you want to, and after you spend your 5 days of hacking you can take 2 weeks off before the next one and still earn the same money as the guy that works 40 hours/week.
Doesn't that assume you win, though? If you lose, you've basically worked for free.
Come on you guys, it's not THAT hard to pay off debt. All it takes is a reasonable job
I'll stop you right there, as you've hit on the issue. It is difficult for recent grads to find reasonable jobs these days. In my personal experience, after I got my Master's degree the only job I could find was one paying $13 an hour (which I only got because I had been working with that company part time since I started college). From there, with my education I was able to get a new job within the company that doubled my salary, but until I did I was barely able to make any type of loan payment. And while my degree wasn't as marketable as, say, engineering, it's still pretty useful. I just happened to graduate at a time where a lot of people who might as well be a protected class were entering the workforce as well, competing for the jobs I applied for.
Because the properties list their rates before hand and are already pricing based on demand. You dont have to outbid somebody else for it.
It's all the fun of putting in an offer to buy a house without the joy of actually having a chance of walking away with a house and some equity. It's like practice for homebuying!
"rent-seeking" usually refers to entities that benefit from government mandates. This is not the case here.
Typically yes, but it is not solely from government sources. From wikipedia: "Rent-seeking implies extraction of uncompensated value from others without making any contribution to productivity." Basically any type of middle-man arrangement with no real added value is rent seeking. In fact, this is worse than a middle man if you consider their long-term goal of charging off of the difference (either way) from the original asking price: their ideal situation is one is which one party gets a decidedly sub-optimal outcome, thereby creating negative value.
Rent-seeking off those seeking rent. Oh the irony.
Those 5 guys at 50k are using that money to buy a house, pay rent, eat out, and go on vacations.
No, they still can't afford to do any of those things in any market where such jobs are likely to be offered.
Atlanta has a rapidly growing tech industry and 50k goes a long way there. Not all tech jobs have to be in NY or SV.
Except if you live in NYC. Then you are buying a two bedroom condo for $1,000,000 plus (in a nice, safe area - not a posh, ritzy area)
That's why I said overpriced real estate :)
Making America great again by "encouraging low- and mid-level jobs to go to American workers"? How about "enabling American workers to fill highly qualified positions"?
5 more jobs paying 50k each is better than 1 job paying 250k. Those 5 guys at 50k are using that money to buy a house, pay rent, eat out, and go on vacations. The guy making 250k is tying most of that money up, either in overpriced real estate or putting it in a bank/stocks. You help the economy by putting money into circulation, which means it needs to be spent.
if true you can usually get some lowest price warranty on the bargain web site
Most of the time for the hotel I'm looking at, the lowest price on the bargain site is the same as the price offered by the hotel chain to their loyalty club members. So there's really no reason to use the bargain sites except, as someone above said, as an initial filter to find one in the area that meets your budget.
(Or does a guy named Nacho own a couple thousand little restaurants here?)
Well, since they were supposedly invented by a guy named "Nacho", maybe they are all just paying homage to him.
I think Patruck is more worried about what reclassification would do to the longterm survival of his cushy Executive Director job at the Save the Manatees Club than he is the survival of the manatees.