The numbers are slightly strange. For example, comparing death rates for people 'over 65' makes no sense - everyone over 65 dies; there is no upper bound on the age. Comparing death rates in the 55-64 range doesn't account for the number of people in either country who die before they are 55.
People over 65 are less likely to be out kayaking, mountain climbing, snowboarding, parachuting, and all the other fun outdoors things that Americans do frequently. If they are still doing it, they're in the minority and they have enough experience not to get killed doing it. That leaves driving (and extreme Bingo) for unnatural causes of death for old people. So yes, it makes sense to measure those ages.
The Republicans, especially the Tea Party wing, want the United States government to spend less money. President Obama wants to end what some analysts have called an unwinnable war in Afghanistan. But are Speaker-elect Boehner and his Republicans willing to cut defense spending?
Military spending at 23% of the budget is a lot less than social programs like Welfare, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, etc at 60% of the budget. Heck, interest on all the debt that's been run up is 25% of the military spending! Is President Obama willing to cut spending where the most is spent?
Failing to vote is a vote for apathy, and politicians will start to ignore you.
That is the most hilarious thing I've ever heard.
You actually think they don't ignore you even if you do vote?
And that's the most hilarious thing I've ever heard. Career politicians only care about one thing: votes. They only care about contributions because contributions buy advertising that gets votes. They only care about a given piece of legislation because the good/bad press from it affects... wait for it... votes. In short, politicians care ONLY about people who vote and of voters, they only care about ones likely to vote for them.
Why is it in almost every military related article posted here, it inevitably turns political?
Because war and politics go hand in hand.
Funny how the "hippie dippies" are aware of this and it completely sails over your head.
Discussion of technology used in a war situation does NOT always go hand in hand with politics, and this topic is about foam on tents. There's no politics involved, no contractors out of control, no politicians making claims, not even a weapons system; just foam on the tents. The problem is that hippie dippies are unable to discuss military operations without ranting about politics. Only someone with a gratuitous axe to grind links foam on tents to the horror, the horror, the horror...
Cram business logic that should properly exist at the application level into a crappy SQL platform!
After you work in BI for a while you'll come to realize that where business logic is kept isn't nearly as important as that it's only kept in one place.
one California proposition -- which would legalize marijuana.
Oh, well I live in Colorado where already we let the reefer addicts legally buy their pot by getting a "prescription" first. Two doctors in Boulder give out something like 90% of the prescriptions. It basically goes something like this:
RA: Huh huh, Doc, I need a prescription for my weed. Doctor: You're supposed to say you have a pain. RA: What pain? Doctor: you need to say you have a pain before I can give you a prescription RA: Huh huh, yeah, I do Doctor: Close enough, here you go
What is "prop 19" - it is nowhere on my state's ballot. I suppose this is a micro version of all the non-USA people complaining Slashdot is too USA centric talks. You are too whatever-state-you're-in centric.
Who's behind the "accusations", and why are the kids being sued?
I don't know anything about American law, but if the accident caused the woman's death (though indirectly), this would be a criminal case, no?
If there's no criminal prosecution either because it fails or the public prosecutor realizes there's no way to win then the case can become a civil case. Just look at the notorious OJ Simpson case. He wasn't convicted for killing his wife but her family won a civil case against him. This case has skipped straight to the civil suit because the police and public prosecutor have more sense than to try to charge little girls on bicycles with homicide.
No, don't worry, the little girls will be OK in the end. Their lawyer will in turn sue the bicycle manufacturer because there wasn't a sticker on it saying 'WARNING: DO NOT RUN OVER OLD PEOPLE'.
I know a fellow who cut the phone lines to Cheyenne Mountain back in the early '70s. He was running the drilling machine to make pilings for a new highway overpass when two truckloads of angry MPs hunting communist infiltrators came roaring down the road. Turns out the guy who left the little flags showing where there was an underground cable didn't notice a loop that was put in when the cables were installed and the two ends didn't match up. By complete coincidence the bridge piling was going in right over the looped cable. Hah, took my friend and his crew several hours to convince the MPs they weren't a Soviet sleeper cell disrupting communications as prelude to nuclear attack.
No they didn't. Yet so many people think they did. It's odd.
You're not very good at government budget speak. When a given agency's budget is increased by:
1. less that it was in a prior year 3. less than promised for this year from several years ago 4. less than what its administrators want 5. less than some other agency's increase
Heck yeah, Sharp made all kinds of cool computers back in the day. A friend of mine in high school had portable one with a little LCD screen built in. They were completely proprietary, of course. Eventually, they build standard PC clones and that's what they're getting out of. By making a tablet they're actually moving back to their old ways.
That's OK; he's a lot smarter than the science team who are clearly morons for not once taking into account their own spacecraft parts during the years it took to put the program together.
The widespread use of loopholes by companies/"rich" people always really pissed me off
The existance of taxes for companies should really piss you off. No company has ever paid a single penny in taxes of their own money. All their taxes are built into what they charge for their goods and services. At 35% income tax level, every $100 you spend at the store means you paid $35 of corporate income tax. Any company who can find a way to wiggle out of some tax quickly uses the savings to undercut their competitors' prices.
Pay careful attention to the bit about $8,000 / hr for transportation to get it to the building site before you get excited about the money you'll save.
without fear that someone else will make a copy of it
This isn't a troll but a valid point about the 'and share with friends' bit. It's none of hardware's business to decide if one may or may not make a copy of a digital work but they don't need to call out copying to someone who didn't purchase or license it. That's a civil case between the user and the producer. Hardware needs to make no distinction on making copies - it's the user's decision whether the copies are to make spares for themselves or to pass on to someone else.
Interesting you should bring up this bit about fossil fuels. The water is headed for people who are stressed for lack of water but who have plenty of fuel from an economy dependent on fuels but apparently has plenty of water. I say we trade it to them at a reasonable ratio, say, about 1 standard barrel of light crude per US gallon of water.
and thought about writing a science fiction story about an interstellar war between Mars and the no longer existing fifth planet
Good science fiction uses fantastic settings to explore how people interact. If you've got a good story about interesting characters and their struggles with each other and/or their societies, go ahead and write it anyway and take a little artistic license with the settings. But if your story is so dependent on the realism of Mars's relationship to the asteroid belt that you won't write it otherwise, it probably won't be any fun to read.
If stimulating debate over politics and religion are too "polarizing" (takes too much thinking?) and some topics are too banal, what exactly are the middle ground topics that keep 500M people addicted to FB?
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The numbers are slightly strange. For example, comparing death rates for people 'over 65' makes no sense - everyone over 65 dies; there is no upper bound on the age. Comparing death rates in the 55-64 range doesn't account for the number of people in either country who die before they are 55.
People over 65 are less likely to be out kayaking, mountain climbing, snowboarding, parachuting, and all the other fun outdoors things that Americans do frequently. If they are still doing it, they're in the minority and they have enough experience not to get killed doing it. That leaves driving (and extreme Bingo) for unnatural causes of death for old people. So yes, it makes sense to measure those ages.
The Republicans, especially the Tea Party wing, want the United States government to spend less money. President Obama wants to end what some analysts have called an unwinnable war in Afghanistan. But are Speaker-elect Boehner and his Republicans willing to cut defense spending?
Military spending at 23% of the budget is a lot less than social programs like Welfare, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, etc at 60% of the budget. Heck, interest on all the debt that's been run up is 25% of the military spending! Is President Obama willing to cut spending where the most is spent?
That is the most hilarious thing I've ever heard.
You actually think they don't ignore you even if you do vote?
And that's the most hilarious thing I've ever heard. Career politicians only care about one thing: votes. They only care about contributions because contributions buy advertising that gets votes. They only care about a given piece of legislation because the good/bad press from it affects... wait for it... votes. In short, politicians care ONLY about people who vote and of voters, they only care about ones likely to vote for them.
Why is it in almost every military related article posted here, it inevitably turns political?
Because war and politics go hand in hand.
Funny how the "hippie dippies" are aware of this and it completely sails over your head.
Discussion of technology used in a war situation does NOT always go hand in hand with politics, and this topic is about foam on tents. There's no politics involved, no contractors out of control, no politicians making claims, not even a weapons system; just foam on the tents. The problem is that hippie dippies are unable to discuss military operations without ranting about politics. Only someone with a gratuitous axe to grind links foam on tents to the horror, the horror, the horror...
Cram business logic that should properly exist at the application level into a crappy SQL platform!
After you work in BI for a while you'll come to realize that where business logic is kept isn't nearly as important as that it's only kept in one place.
How did you know the cafe owner wasn't a Sudetengerman?
It's explained in the summary...
one California proposition -- which would legalize marijuana.
Oh, well I live in Colorado where already we let the reefer addicts legally buy their pot by getting a "prescription" first. Two doctors in Boulder give out something like 90% of the prescriptions. It basically goes something like this:
RA: Huh huh, Doc, I need a prescription for my weed.
Doctor: You're supposed to say you have a pain.
RA: What pain?
Doctor: you need to say you have a pain before I can give you a prescription
RA: Huh huh, yeah, I do
Doctor: Close enough, here you go
What is "prop 19" - it is nowhere on my state's ballot. I suppose this is a micro version of all the non-USA people complaining Slashdot is too USA centric talks. You are too whatever-state-you're-in centric.
Who's behind the "accusations", and why are the kids being sued?
I don't know anything about American law, but if the accident caused the woman's death (though indirectly), this would be a criminal case, no?
If there's no criminal prosecution either because it fails or the public prosecutor realizes there's no way to win then the case can become a civil case. Just look at the notorious OJ Simpson case. He wasn't convicted for killing his wife but her family won a civil case against him. This case has skipped straight to the civil suit because the police and public prosecutor have more sense than to try to charge little girls on bicycles with homicide.
It really IS time to kill all the lawyers
No, don't worry, the little girls will be OK in the end. Their lawyer will in turn sue the bicycle manufacturer because there wasn't a sticker on it saying 'WARNING: DO NOT RUN OVER OLD PEOPLE'.
"Industrial laws"? Nice euphemism. Yet another example of how unions exist to keep unions existing.
I know a fellow who cut the phone lines to Cheyenne Mountain back in the early '70s. He was running the drilling machine to make pilings for a new highway overpass when two truckloads of angry MPs hunting communist infiltrators came roaring down the road. Turns out the guy who left the little flags showing where there was an underground cable didn't notice a loop that was put in when the cables were installed and the two ends didn't match up. By complete coincidence the bridge piling was going in right over the looped cable. Hah, took my friend and his crew several hours to convince the MPs they weren't a Soviet sleeper cell disrupting communications as prelude to nuclear attack.
Our elected officials cut NASA's budget..
No they didn't. Yet so many people think they did. It's odd.
You're not very good at government budget speak. When a given agency's budget is increased by:
1. less that it was in a prior year
3. less than promised for this year from several years ago
4. less than what its administrators want
5. less than some other agency's increase
The budget was slashed! Oh noes!
Sharp made PCs?
Heck yeah, Sharp made all kinds of cool computers back in the day. A friend of mine in high school had portable one with a little LCD screen built in. They were completely proprietary, of course. Eventually, they build standard PC clones and that's what they're getting out of. By making a tablet they're actually moving back to their old ways.
Jesus christ you're lazy!
That's OK; he's a lot smarter than the science team who are clearly morons for not once taking into account their own spacecraft parts during the years it took to put the program together.
it's basically impossible for a productive citizen to know what's legal and what's not
Are you talking about taxes or the security rigamarole at the airport?
The widespread use of loopholes by companies/"rich" people always really pissed me off
The existance of taxes for companies should really piss you off. No company has ever paid a single penny in taxes of their own money. All their taxes are built into what they charge for their goods and services. At 35% income tax level, every $100 you spend at the store means you paid $35 of corporate income tax. Any company who can find a way to wiggle out of some tax quickly uses the savings to undercut their competitors' prices.
These plans represent job security for civil servants. They mean bigger budgets, bigger offices, higher salaries, more staff.
Congrats, you've just discovered "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy".
and laugh at all the money and time I saved
Pay careful attention to the bit about $8,000 / hr for transportation to get it to the building site before you get excited about the money you'll save.
Just be glad this retard doesn't have the power of life and death like his contemporaries had in ancient times
Ancient times? You need to travel more - most cops do have that power in any developing country you could list.
without fear that someone else will make a copy of it
This isn't a troll but a valid point about the 'and share with friends' bit. It's none of hardware's business to decide if one may or may not make a copy of a digital work but they don't need to call out copying to someone who didn't purchase or license it. That's a civil case between the user and the producer. Hardware needs to make no distinction on making copies - it's the user's decision whether the copies are to make spares for themselves or to pass on to someone else.
2. transport it far away using fossil fuel
Interesting you should bring up this bit about fossil fuels. The water is headed for people who are stressed for lack of water but who have plenty of fuel from an economy dependent on fuels but apparently has plenty of water. I say we trade it to them at a reasonable ratio, say, about 1 standard barrel of light crude per US gallon of water.
He wants us to revert to stone age tools and pray to the Dark Lord
Don't be silly. Michael Mann would be perfectly happy if we'd just watch more Miami Vice reruns so he'd get residuals.
and thought about writing a science fiction story about an interstellar war between Mars and the no longer existing fifth planet
Good science fiction uses fantastic settings to explore how people interact. If you've got a good story about interesting characters and their struggles with each other and/or their societies, go ahead and write it anyway and take a little artistic license with the settings. But if your story is so dependent on the realism of Mars's relationship to the asteroid belt that you won't write it otherwise, it probably won't be any fun to read.
If stimulating debate over politics and religion are too "polarizing" (takes too much thinking?) and some topics are too banal, what exactly are the middle ground topics that keep 500M people addicted to FB?