The so-called "STEM shortage" is pretty much bullshit. If you take a look at the degrees that pay the best you find that standard STEM degrees dominate.
Um, I'm not saying one way or the other, but doesn't that piece of evidence support the conclusion that there's a STEM shortage?
He was confident enough about his dates to put money on it. He lost very, very badly. Sorry, the business about not meaning those exact dates are just alibis from a guy who missed very badly.
The 9/11 hijackers did nothing illegal until well after the cabin doors of their aircraft closed.
Not in the US, no, since they didn't come to the US until they were involved in the plot. They had been active jihadists overseas, and this was known to the CIA (but not the FBI, because the CIA didn't tell them). And while they didn't do anything illegal, they did things that were damn suspicious (most notably their attitudes and actions during their flight training).
Nobody is paid well enough to be immune to bribery.
True. There are, however, people paid poorly enough that they have to take bribes if they want to eat this month. Being paid well doesn't make you immune to bribery, but it does make you less vulnerable to it.
Because his mother is an American citizen, and was one when he was born, which makes him one from birth. The US Constitution doesn't require the President to have been born in the US, only that he be born a citizen.
No, because other countries can't generate any appreciable political pressure in the US. It would require an internal political movement and there isn't one of any moment.
The pancreas produces several hormones. The automatic insulin pump deals with only one. Therefore an automatic insulin pump is not a replacement for a pancreas
True in the pedantic sense, but it doesn't need to be one. The problem in juvenile diabetes isn't that the whole pancreas shuts down. Only the parts that make insulin ("the Isles of Langerhans") do. The rest of the pancreas remains perfectly functional. I suppose that they should have really called it an "artifical Isles of Langerhans", but that's pretty clumsy.
Well, actually, there are two kinds of diabetes. In one type (adult-onset diabetes or Type 2 diabetes) the body becomes less and less responsive to insulin. This is the kind associated with obesity, and the pump won't help this much. The other type (juvenile diabetes or Type 1 diabetes) is caused by the body stopping production of insulin, generally because the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas die off. The body remains completely responsive to insulin; the problem is that there isn't any any more. This will be a godsend for people with Type I.
non sequiter, it was kinda funny that the silk road guy went by the name 'dread pirate roberts', but nobody came along to pick up the name and keep it going. Ruins the point?
None of the "Dread Pirate Roberts"es were in fact caught. They all retired on their riches, passing the title down to a successor in the process. So the situations aren't the same.
I buy my gas just before crossing the boarder. Drive around on it and cross back to refill. So they have taxed me for miles that I did not drive in the state.
No, you weren't. You weren't taxed on the miles you drove at all. You were taxed on the gas your purchased. The state where you purchased the gas has every right to tax it. What you did with that gas later was of no matter and makes no difference to the state's right to tax the sale.
Yeah, you can think of gas tax a consumption tax in stead of use tax.
No, you can't think of it as either, because it is not either of those things. It is a sales tax. It is a tax on the sale. The state where that sale takes place has the right to tax it.
They don't need to guarantee all the mileage they tax is in-state now, because they aren't taxing mileage now. When they start, they'll need to do so, hence the GPS requirement.
A deal where you had to opt out and agree to be tracked in order to avoid an unconstitutional tax would not likely pass the first legal challenge either. My opinion is that the whole deal is unworkable unless you implement their privacy-violating Rube Goldberg set up, and it should just be abandoned.
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Um, I'm not saying one way or the other, but doesn't that piece of evidence support the conclusion that there's a STEM shortage?
None of the linked articles seem to say....
He was confident enough about his dates to put money on it. He lost very, very badly. Sorry, the business about not meaning those exact dates are just alibis from a guy who missed very badly.
Not in the US, no, since they didn't come to the US until they were involved in the plot. They had been active jihadists overseas, and this was known to the CIA (but not the FBI, because the CIA didn't tell them). And while they didn't do anything illegal, they did things that were damn suspicious (most notably their attitudes and actions during their flight training).
True. There are, however, people paid poorly enough that they have to take bribes if they want to eat this month. Being paid well doesn't make you immune to bribery, but it does make you less vulnerable to it.
Because his mother is an American citizen, and was one when he was born, which makes him one from birth. The US Constitution doesn't require the President to have been born in the US, only that he be born a citizen.
Yes, there was, I remember it too (I was in high school). It's been dead for twenty or thirty years now, though.
No, because other countries can't generate any appreciable political pressure in the US. It would require an internal political movement and there isn't one of any moment.
Something has to hold the build-up charge for the home-defense particle accelerator...
The pancreas produces several hormones. The automatic insulin pump deals with only one. Therefore an automatic insulin pump is not a replacement for a pancreas
True in the pedantic sense, but it doesn't need to be one. The problem in juvenile diabetes isn't that the whole pancreas shuts down. Only the parts that make insulin ("the Isles of Langerhans") do. The rest of the pancreas remains perfectly functional. I suppose that they should have really called it an "artifical Isles of Langerhans", but that's pretty clumsy.
Well, actually, there are two kinds of diabetes. In one type (adult-onset diabetes or Type 2 diabetes) the body becomes less and less responsive to insulin. This is the kind associated with obesity, and the pump won't help this much. The other type (juvenile diabetes or Type 1 diabetes) is caused by the body stopping production of insulin, generally because the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas die off. The body remains completely responsive to insulin; the problem is that there isn't any any more. This will be a godsend for people with Type I.
None of the "Dread Pirate Roberts"es were in fact caught. They all retired on their riches, passing the title down to a successor in the process. So the situations aren't the same.
Unless you're being paid for supporting them, and then it kinda is, y'know. Because that's what you're drawing a paycheck for.
Because they also carefully pre-selected a result that would generate a desire in journalists to carry the story. Real science doesn't get to do that.
Because you can't electrocute people with DC?
And, of course, Britain stayed out of the EMU as well.
Equal rights for centaurs now!
The fact that there's no such thing as "HIPPA"? Perhaps you meant "HIPAA" ("Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act").
Know why it's the "Apple II"? 'Cause the first iteration, the Apple I, was a *kit*. That's right, you built it yourself.
Actually, they'd move it to Paris. San Francisco is home to Starfleet Academy, not the Federation capital.
A cylindrical reference is like a circular reference, except it happens when your code is three dimensional.
Not problems like 'what is beauty?' Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems.
No, you weren't. You weren't taxed on the miles you drove at all. You were taxed on the gas your purchased. The state where you purchased the gas has every right to tax it. What you did with that gas later was of no matter and makes no difference to the state's right to tax the sale.
No, you can't think of it as either, because it is not either of those things. It is a sales tax. It is a tax on the sale. The state where that sale takes place has the right to tax it.
They don't need to guarantee all the mileage they tax is in-state now, because they aren't taxing mileage now. When they start, they'll need to do so, hence the GPS requirement.
A deal where you had to opt out and agree to be tracked in order to avoid an unconstitutional tax would not likely pass the first legal challenge either. My opinion is that the whole deal is unworkable unless you implement their privacy-violating Rube Goldberg set up, and it should just be abandoned.