A shame, really, as that's what's fueling the news-worthy "Mexican drug lords"; I read that pot is 70% of their business, so legalizing and taxing it would first do so so so much good in terms of reducing the cost of policing the laws that remain on the books, promoting respect for the law, tax revenue, a portion of which can be used for treatment, freeing non-violent "criminals" whose only crime was to try the wrong treatment for their ills or who acted as "alcohol dealers of today" do (i.e., they provided a product at a specific price; those who use guns and violence in their organization should stay locked up); and it would also go a long way towards eliminating the "mafia of today".
The mafia of the 20s was created by alcohol prohibition, for which we required changing our Constitution. It makes perfect sense that a different set of substances being "prohibited" would create a black market for them as well, and the profitability that comes from a black market attracts that sort of violence because when a deal goes bad, there is no legal recourse. An alcohol dealer whose vodka shipment was missing a few crates can sue the transport company or the vendor it was purchased from; currently, a pot dealer whose deal went bad cannot sue, or they would end up in jail even if they were to win.
And, I'm saddened that we were able to change our country's supreme law of the land without a Constitutional Amendment, for this round of prohibition. Anyway, yeah, we're all slaves to the governments on the planet. As the other response mentioned, your right to free speech is even curtailed in several areas: no "fire" in a crowded theater; HIPPA; threats can get you jailed; etc.
No, you missed the point. The only way to get these guys to pay their taxes is for the president to appoint them to office.
So far Obama has a 100% success record in collecting from these guys.
He's not "the uniter," nor is he "the decider," Obama is "the collector."
I like that line of thinking! Soon, there will be a Government Office for each and every one of us to be appointed to!
Sort of like everyone in Marketing is a "manager", so to determine where in the hierarchy they really fall, you need to look for word order: "Manager, Marketing Department" is a real manager; "Account Manager" means someone with no direct reports.
Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I wouldn't expect a huge problem either, except that extra cheap energy could lead to massive heat pollution from inefficient electronics, toasters, and manufacturing plants.
The biggest problem is that you cannot have multiple versions of Internet explorer installed on the same computer.
You can with an application virtualization technology, like Softricity's SoftGrid (now Microsoft's App-V), or VMware's ThinApp, or Citrix's XenApp. Of course, those wrappers also come with their own set of unique, difficult-to-research bugs, so as always YMMV.
14 is legal (possibly with some restrictions) in Iowa, Missouri, and South Carolina. 15 in Colorado. 16 in many states. The page states that it hasn't been updated in some time so the laws may have changed in the past few years; if you are considering visiting a high school, you should ask a DA, police officer, or the high school's principal for clarification and/or incarceration.
This page seems more up-to-date. Several foreign countries are as low as age 12, which is frankly a little creepy (although a female ancestor, 5 generations away I believe, was married at age 12).
I have concern for a cow or a pig's quality of life, but I'm not remotely sorry for their death. I just wouldn't want them to suffer for it, because they're mammals (to be blunt about it).
There is another aspect to this as well: the taste of the meat varies by how much trauma the animal experiences at and just before death.
There's a restaurant in France I believe that celebrated its millionth "strangled duck" serving, several years ago. Apparently, strangling a duck gives its meat a better taste (not sure how, haven't had one myself). And cows are led into the slaughterhouse in a crooked line, so they can't see the lead cow being slaughtered, which reduces the amount of fear hormones that are pumped into the meat.
It will be great when we get RepRap++ and can reproduce "the perfect steak" without killing a life form.
Don't be an idiot. There are always ways to blunder a usability invention but saying that this idea is a usability nightmare is ignorance.
Well, (mostly) ignoring the tone, I will say that I have to wholeheartedly agree that this is a usability nightmare.
I owned a Corvette a decade ago, which had this feature. A friend came to visit. He said that as he was driving up and knocking on the door, he watched my car flash its lights several times as I walked in and out of range, inside my house!
I quickly turned the feature off. With this, there were two settings: flash the lights, or the horn (or both). I had had it set to just the lights; if I had the horn on, then I would have known without my friend telling me.
Don't be so quick to call others idiots when they propose valid scenarios and use cases.
Further, the MMPI is a "Personality Inventory" test... it may well be that the (alleged) effectiveness of the test relies on the test-taker to not know the questions beforehand.
While this may be the case, it is absurd given a moments' thought: a single candidate may apply for jobs at more than one company that uses this test, and that candidate will only have "not known the questions beforehand" for one of those tests.
I remember taking one of these for employment at a nuclear plant. It was written back in the 20s, and had questions such as "horses that don't pull should be beaten or kicked." Now, this is completely different from "I kick my car if it won't go" because the latter is just frustration, but the former is abusing another life form, which I believe was what the question was about.
I saw Religulous by Bill Maher the other day; one of the questions he asked in it was along the lines of, "we have kept a myth about creation from the Bronze Age, a time when we knew very little about science. Our society has grown significantly in the intervening years, yet we still latch on to the myth. What other beliefs from the Bronze Age do we still hold today?" The answer is of course, "none".
The MMPI was written close to a century ago. Perhaps it worked for its time; but isn't it quite possible that it no longer serves its purpose? Perhaps its creators need to perform more "work" rather than sitting back and letting copyright law fill their pockets? (I.e., update the test and then they have a new copyrighted work; if it really is almost a century old, then it should have gone into the public domain... 5 times, based on the government "contract" that they agreed to when the began distributing their copyrighted works.)
In the effort to "sell school" I think some engineering programs are giving students the wrong impression of what the engineering career is really like.
At Microsoft, the interns get all the cool projects. You would think, "huh? Why not the employees?" The answer fits directly in with the article, as well as this post: Microsoft is "selling working at Microsoft".
Perhaps in part due to Microsoft's rosy treatment of its interns, college students have the perception that work is somehow different from what the rest of us know it to be.
If you ask me, if we're going to have people carrying guns in my neighborhood, I'd prefer that they be weed-users -- not steroids users, but may be that's just me.
You're not alone... "Can you imagine a bar fight in Amsterdam?" "Me either."
When someone wants to re-enabled IE again they're taken off to the IE site where they have to download the installer and get the latest version rather than some outdated version that's been sitting hidden away on their system.
And if they've removed it (deleting the files) and don't have a second browser?
Reminds me somewhat of "And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?"
Not removing the files makes perfect sense from an "easy reinstall" scenario.
I know that you went for Funny, but I had a similar thought about the two missions last night:
If one of these was doomed to fail, I'm very, very glad it was the one pointing down. We can achieve a lot more looking out than we can looking in. And anyway, we're only stuck here for a couple more centuries at most. I'd even go so far as to say we'll start colonizing the sky before the end of this century.
So knowing where else to go is much more important than knowing more about what processes are going on locally.
Of course, having them both succeed would have been the best of all possible worlds, but we don't live in that.
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You say that like it's a bad thing... I would think that it would be a selling point.
Well, ever since William Randolph Hearst and Harry Anslinger got their way, you no longer have complete control over the types of materials that you can put in your mouth.
A shame, really, as that's what's fueling the news-worthy "Mexican drug lords"; I read that pot is 70% of their business, so legalizing and taxing it would first do so so so much good in terms of reducing the cost of policing the laws that remain on the books, promoting respect for the law, tax revenue, a portion of which can be used for treatment, freeing non-violent "criminals" whose only crime was to try the wrong treatment for their ills or who acted as "alcohol dealers of today" do (i.e., they provided a product at a specific price; those who use guns and violence in their organization should stay locked up); and it would also go a long way towards eliminating the "mafia of today".
The mafia of the 20s was created by alcohol prohibition, for which we required changing our Constitution. It makes perfect sense that a different set of substances being "prohibited" would create a black market for them as well, and the profitability that comes from a black market attracts that sort of violence because when a deal goes bad, there is no legal recourse. An alcohol dealer whose vodka shipment was missing a few crates can sue the transport company or the vendor it was purchased from; currently, a pot dealer whose deal went bad cannot sue, or they would end up in jail even if they were to win.
And, I'm saddened that we were able to change our country's supreme law of the land without a Constitutional Amendment, for this round of prohibition. Anyway, yeah, we're all slaves to the governments on the planet. As the other response mentioned, your right to free speech is even curtailed in several areas: no "fire" in a crowded theater; HIPPA; threats can get you jailed; etc.
One of my favorite lines from this letter that I've read a few times in the past year (regarding them suing him):
I like that line of thinking! Soon, there will be a Government Office for each and every one of us to be appointed to!
Sort of like everyone in Marketing is a "manager", so to determine where in the hierarchy they really fall, you need to look for word order: "Manager, Marketing Department" is a real manager; "Account Manager" means someone with no direct reports.
Cylon sympathizer.
In Soviet Slashdot, bad jokes write themselves!
Yeah, no kidding! I don't even eat butter. Not very targeted advertising, I agree.
You can with an application virtualization technology, like Softricity's SoftGrid (now Microsoft's App-V), or VMware's ThinApp, or Citrix's XenApp. Of course, those wrappers also come with their own set of unique, difficult-to-research bugs, so as always YMMV.
Educate thyself: Various ages of consent.
14 is legal (possibly with some restrictions) in Iowa, Missouri, and South Carolina. 15 in Colorado. 16 in many states. The page states that it hasn't been updated in some time so the laws may have changed in the past few years; if you are considering visiting a high school, you should ask a DA, police officer, or the high school's principal for clarification and/or incarceration.
This page seems more up-to-date. Several foreign countries are as low as age 12, which is frankly a little creepy (although a female ancestor, 5 generations away I believe, was married at age 12).
There is another aspect to this as well: the taste of the meat varies by how much trauma the animal experiences at and just before death.
There's a restaurant in France I believe that celebrated its millionth "strangled duck" serving, several years ago. Apparently, strangling a duck gives its meat a better taste (not sure how, haven't had one myself). And cows are led into the slaughterhouse in a crooked line, so they can't see the lead cow being slaughtered, which reduces the amount of fear hormones that are pumped into the meat.
It will be great when we get RepRap++ and can reproduce "the perfect steak" without killing a life form.
Wow, she sure matured quickly huh? :)
Yeah, until little Bobby Tables' parents give him his keys...
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OK. I'll take your car! :)
Well, (mostly) ignoring the tone, I will say that I have to wholeheartedly agree that this is a usability nightmare.
I owned a Corvette a decade ago, which had this feature. A friend came to visit. He said that as he was driving up and knocking on the door, he watched my car flash its lights several times as I walked in and out of range, inside my house!
I quickly turned the feature off. With this, there were two settings: flash the lights, or the horn (or both). I had had it set to just the lights; if I had the horn on, then I would have known without my friend telling me.
Don't be so quick to call others idiots when they propose valid scenarios and use cases.
Love the typo! "Grudgingly, emptying his lungs, the President marked his signature."
While this may be the case, it is absurd given a moments' thought: a single candidate may apply for jobs at more than one company that uses this test, and that candidate will only have "not known the questions beforehand" for one of those tests.
I remember taking one of these for employment at a nuclear plant. It was written back in the 20s, and had questions such as "horses that don't pull should be beaten or kicked." Now, this is completely different from "I kick my car if it won't go" because the latter is just frustration, but the former is abusing another life form, which I believe was what the question was about.
I saw Religulous by Bill Maher the other day; one of the questions he asked in it was along the lines of, "we have kept a myth about creation from the Bronze Age, a time when we knew very little about science. Our society has grown significantly in the intervening years, yet we still latch on to the myth. What other beliefs from the Bronze Age do we still hold today?" The answer is of course, "none".
The MMPI was written close to a century ago. Perhaps it worked for its time; but isn't it quite possible that it no longer serves its purpose? Perhaps its creators need to perform more "work" rather than sitting back and letting copyright law fill their pockets? (I.e., update the test and then they have a new copyrighted work; if it really is almost a century old, then it should have gone into the public domain ... 5 times, based on the government "contract" that they agreed to when the began distributing their copyrighted works.)
Sorry, I'm not going to wait for your "population fantasy" to come to fruition. I'm building automated factories now.
Hi Ray! How about "Warner, EMI, Sony, Universal"? Makes for a better, more realistic acronym. :)
"How'd you solve the icing problem?"
"Icing problem...?"
"Better look into that." <clonk>
"My wife has been dead for years. Who did I hit!?!?"
At Microsoft, the interns get all the cool projects. You would think, "huh? Why not the employees?" The answer fits directly in with the article, as well as this post: Microsoft is "selling working at Microsoft".
Perhaps in part due to Microsoft's rosy treatment of its interns, college students have the perception that work is somehow different from what the rest of us know it to be.
Quick, let's take advantage of them! :)
You're not alone... "Can you imagine a bar fight in Amsterdam?" "Me either."
Yeah, it's a joke, but there is truth in humor.
And if they've removed it (deleting the files) and don't have a second browser?
Reminds me somewhat of "And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?"
Not removing the files makes perfect sense from an "easy reinstall" scenario.
It really was, and Microsoft still has text describing it in TechNet.
I know that you went for Funny, but I had a similar thought about the two missions last night:
If one of these was doomed to fail, I'm very, very glad it was the one pointing down. We can achieve a lot more looking out than we can looking in. And anyway, we're only stuck here for a couple more centuries at most. I'd even go so far as to say we'll start colonizing the sky before the end of this century.
So knowing where else to go is much more important than knowing more about what processes are going on locally.
Of course, having them both succeed would have been the best of all possible worlds, but we don't live in that.