Its mathematically impossible for everyone to pay off all debt in the system that we currently have now, the inflation is what makes the active pursuit of money (and therefore production) obligatory.
In other words, the whole fucking thing is a ponzi scheme.
No, that's not the case at all. Jail is not prison. If you're arrested for any reason, you end up in jail until you get bailed out. It doesn't matter how frivolous the charges are.
Essentially this ruling means that any police officer can take you and have you strip searched for any reason whatsoever (let's say you're arrested for resisting arrest) and you have no recourse. That's the country we live in today.
Are you really so dumb as to claim the oil market is global on one hand and then on the other deny that pouring more production into said market will have no impact across the market as a whole?
Domestic oil production will have no greater effect on gas prices than any other oil production.
where we could at least monitor the environmental controls around oil production instead of sweeping THAT under the run by pretending other oil producing countries are good stewards of the environment
Like that would happen. No, what would happen is that oil companies would realize that abiding by enviromental regulations in the US is cutting into profits. They then lobby Congress to get exemptions. Congress, being nothing but lap dogs, rolls over and lets them do whatever they want.
Shit, they were just about to let them run a pipeline over one of the largest aquifers in the world. And the stupid fucking conservatives thought that oil was for us. They never seem to wonder why they'd want to pipe it to a shipping port if it was going to be used here.
We could easily subsidize the purchase of, e.g. a Raspberry Pi if we eliminated some waste from the education system. For example, textbooks.
Let's take all the money that's spent on textbooks nation wide, and use that to commission a free (as in beer and speech) set of elementary school textbooks. You only have to do this once, because the three 'r's don't change. Once you've done that, you can reallocate your entire textbook budget for technology instead.
A citizen can "tail" any other citizen driving around in his car, or "shadow" him walking down the street. Therefore, no extra authority is needed for a police officer to do the same.
Can a citizen (say, me) engage in cell phone tracking of another citizen (say, you)? If so, please tell me how. If not, explain why we should grant cops this extra power without court oversight?
Am I the only one that noticed that the author got supply and demand mixed up? Restricting supply is not the same thing as creating artificial demand. Both increase the actual price point, but that's the only similarity.
I think pretty much everyone who buys gasoline (which, consequently, is pretty much everyone) is fully aware of how the oil cartels collude to fix prices and get away with it.
Boy, are you naive. Republicans apparently believe that there is a free market in oil, and that the free market is not a global market. Otherwise, they would be laughed off stage when it's suggested that increasing domestic production of oil would affect gas prices in the US.
It doesn't actually work that way in practice. Simply paying attention and thinking about what is being said works far better for me than spending half my time writing. My brain appears to be single duplex. I can't listen while I'm writing.
But in the older grades, the English Comp teacher reading 30 papers from 5 or 6 different class periods simply can not spend that much time on that many papers.
That just means there are too few teachers. We need more.
There's no excuse for being up at 1 am grading papers. Any system that allows this is broken. If a teacher can't complete their days work in 8 hours, we need more teachers. Period.
Lucky you. For me English class, fro 7th grade through undergrad was a constant string of "infer the hidden meaning behind this text" with nobody ever trying to teach us the process for inferring that hidden meaning. This lead to me being a C student in English for my entire academic career.
Despite all my efforts, in 8 years of English classes, I was never even able to get a single teacher or professor to explain to me how he knew there were hidden meanings behind the text that was assigned. Nor could I get anyone to tell me why they would put hidden meanings into text, when they could put the meaning the want in the literal text.
The funny thing is, my English is fine. IIRC I got a 760 on the English portion of the SAT. I always got As on papers in classes other than English, and complements on my writing were common. It seems to me that the way English classes are normally taught, they have nothing to do with English at all.
No, I would not have voted for Obama under any circumstances. The most credible agent for change in my lifetime was still not a credible agent for change.
The problem is not just the two party system. It's winner take all elections. It's gerrymandering. It's riders on "must pass" bills. It's the lack of a "no confidence" option on the ballot. It's private financing of elections. It's pervasive lobbying. It's legal bribery.
If it were just a matter of getting another party on the ballot, it wouldn't be so bad. But the system is so rigged that even if you get another party on the ballot, you still can't compete with entrenched political power. The only choice we have is to get rid of it all and start over.
The Geico Gecko didn't always have a British accent. Kelsey Grammar originally provided the voice, in his normal narrating voice. He sounded less exotic than Sideshow Bob at the time.
People from Texas sound more like people from Maine than either sound like the British. There is actually an "American accent". It's the one you see on the news every day in any part of the country.
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not sure if trolling, or just revisionist
Poe's law.
Its mathematically impossible for everyone to pay off all debt in the system that we currently have now, the inflation is what makes the active pursuit of money (and therefore production) obligatory.
In other words, the whole fucking thing is a ponzi scheme.
No, that's not the case at all. Jail is not prison. If you're arrested for any reason, you end up in jail until you get bailed out. It doesn't matter how frivolous the charges are.
Essentially this ruling means that any police officer can take you and have you strip searched for any reason whatsoever (let's say you're arrested for resisting arrest) and you have no recourse. That's the country we live in today.
It's the same material, and the same human brain. The only thing that changes are educational fads. We can ignore those safely enough.
Are you really so dumb as to claim the oil market is global on one hand and then on the other deny that pouring more production into said market will have no impact across the market as a whole?
Domestic oil production will have no greater effect on gas prices than any other oil production.
where we could at least monitor the environmental controls around oil production instead of sweeping THAT under the run by pretending other oil producing countries are good stewards of the environment
Like that would happen. No, what would happen is that oil companies would realize that abiding by enviromental regulations in the US is cutting into profits. They then lobby Congress to get exemptions. Congress, being nothing but lap dogs, rolls over and lets them do whatever they want.
Shit, they were just about to let them run a pipeline over one of the largest aquifers in the world. And the stupid fucking conservatives thought that oil was for us. They never seem to wonder why they'd want to pipe it to a shipping port if it was going to be used here.
We could easily subsidize the purchase of, e.g. a Raspberry Pi if we eliminated some waste from the education system. For example, textbooks.
Let's take all the money that's spent on textbooks nation wide, and use that to commission a free (as in beer and speech) set of elementary school textbooks. You only have to do this once, because the three 'r's don't change. Once you've done that, you can reallocate your entire textbook budget for technology instead.
A citizen can "tail" any other citizen driving around in his car, or "shadow" him walking down the street. Therefore, no extra authority is needed for a police officer to do the same.
Can a citizen (say, me) engage in cell phone tracking of another citizen (say, you)? If so, please tell me how. If not, explain why we should grant cops this extra power without court oversight?
Am I the only one that noticed that the author got supply and demand mixed up? Restricting supply is not the same thing as creating artificial demand. Both increase the actual price point, but that's the only similarity.
I think pretty much everyone who buys gasoline (which, consequently, is pretty much everyone) is fully aware of how the oil cartels collude to fix prices and get away with it.
Boy, are you naive. Republicans apparently believe that there is a free market in oil, and that the free market is not a global market. Otherwise, they would be laughed off stage when it's suggested that increasing domestic production of oil would affect gas prices in the US.
What happens if you want to edit the content of the folder, instead of open every single item inside it?
the federal judiciary is remarkably free from corporate pressure, and it really is the closest thing the USA has to a bastion of liberty and freedom.
Which is more sad than anything else.
Who knew Michael Feldman had a /. account?
It doesn't actually work that way in practice. Simply paying attention and thinking about what is being said works far better for me than spending half my time writing. My brain appears to be single duplex. I can't listen while I'm writing.
Urandom is much slower than /dev/zero.
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 0.207047 s, 5.2 GB/s
$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 95.5125 s, 11.2 MB/s
It may even be necessary to offer them sanctuary in the West in order to meet our obligation to them
I would be all for that. But I'm not for staying in Afghanistan for a minute longer than it takes.
Gladly. Let's expire the Bush tax cuts and put all of it towards teacher salaries. This can't be the only thing we do, but it would help.
But in the older grades, the English Comp teacher reading 30 papers from 5 or 6 different class periods simply can not spend that much time on that many papers.
That just means there are too few teachers. We need more.
There's no excuse for being up at 1 am grading papers. Any system that allows this is broken. If a teacher can't complete their days work in 8 hours, we need more teachers. Period.
Lucky you. For me English class, fro 7th grade through undergrad was a constant string of "infer the hidden meaning behind this text" with nobody ever trying to teach us the process for inferring that hidden meaning. This lead to me being a C student in English for my entire academic career.
Despite all my efforts, in 8 years of English classes, I was never even able to get a single teacher or professor to explain to me how he knew there were hidden meanings behind the text that was assigned. Nor could I get anyone to tell me why they would put hidden meanings into text, when they could put the meaning the want in the literal text.
The funny thing is, my English is fine. IIRC I got a 760 on the English portion of the SAT. I always got As on papers in classes other than English, and complements on my writing were common. It seems to me that the way English classes are normally taught, they have nothing to do with English at all.
No, I would not have voted for Obama under any circumstances. The most credible agent for change in my lifetime was still not a credible agent for change.
The problem is not just the two party system. It's winner take all elections. It's gerrymandering. It's riders on "must pass" bills. It's the lack of a "no confidence" option on the ballot. It's private financing of elections. It's pervasive lobbying. It's legal bribery.
If it were just a matter of getting another party on the ballot, it wouldn't be so bad. But the system is so rigged that even if you get another party on the ballot, you still can't compete with entrenched political power. The only choice we have is to get rid of it all and start over.
DEA.
The Geico Gecko didn't always have a British accent. Kelsey Grammar originally provided the voice, in his normal narrating voice. He sounded less exotic than Sideshow Bob at the time.
People from Texas sound more like people from Maine than either sound like the British. There is actually an "American accent". It's the one you see on the news every day in any part of the country.
Where did they get Johannes Kepler's DNA?
and you can't turn all electricity into useful fuel. the extra heat might need to be thrown out.
Any extra heat that the LEDs are extracting is useful fuel. You can do work with that heat. Throwing it out is wasting it.