I remember a meeting between an American lad and a Soviet napeHb during Krushchev's stint as Premier... even then it occurred to me how much distrust had been indoctrinated into my callow mind. Your fearless leaders are of the same stock as mine, and the bulk of them are sociopaths because that is the surest way to get ahead, footloose and conscience-free. You and your Countrymen are bridled with the same ingrained & misguided tribal loyalties as me and mine, but at heart we are mostly unlike both our leaders and our stereotypes.
I am of the rather cynical view that the Constitution is a thorn in the side of our fearless leaders, and yet a thorn we must endeavor to keep embedded. Regarding the story, whether or not the surveillance of American citizens is done on the above-board budget is probably irrelevant. If this surveilled intelligence has helped its gatherers in even an ephemeral way, the Pentagon's Black Budget is larger than around 120 nations' GDP. Tweaking H.R.Haldeman, the toothpaste is out of the tube and they don't want to get it back in.
This, and I am led to believe many of these "prologue ads", like the overpriced refreshments, actually go a long way toward the theatres bottom line: unlike much of the ticket revenue. The rather interesting news in US movies is that they're actually generating much more revenue overseas now than domestically, which is why you now see Angelina's husband portrayed as a UN operative rather than a rogue American superhero saving the World. Pacific Rim, title and all, is all wrapped up to do well in Asia. It is a different market these days... a bit less Americocentric.
...as would any sentient consideration of risk & reward. And not to be that rare doomsayer on/. , but my personal experience with for-profit business leads me to believe it's not always worked out in this fashion. Ferinstance, I'm the guy at my company in charge of coordinating distribution of our products to the WWmarket. My buddy Joe, who sells space on a transport for Wewontcinq Shipping, always lays out for prime ribeyes thick as a 50's pinup girl at Company BBQ's. He's never been perfect with the paperwork, but he's the life of the party. You See, the very best companies make decisions like they're Borg, but most are staffed by beautifully imperfect people.
The sad irony is even if they cannot, the burden of proof is now on their former owner. If he takes the time, money, and council to prove these assets didn't come from nefarious activity, well, he'll likely be in the red recovering his eight hundred and change.
Oh, you're talking about the backbone of the U>S>education system that has allowed American children to slip behind their Worldly peers in nearly all measurable categories. Ask yourself this: Do the unions make it more difficult to get rid of someone not doing their job?
This reads consonant with a Poe's Law-invoking religious diatribe. Where any one side has too much power in the struggle between labor and ownership, ludicrous conditions are likely to exist. 19th century worker safety and living wages were "negotiated" for, rather than benevolently given, but there is some precedent suggesting powerful labor unions are willing to extort and bully on par with corporate barons. The new world order suggests that jobs owned by multi-national corporations will continue to flow to poorer and poorer countries for their low wages and minimal governmental oversight. The 'have' countries will continue to enjoy cheaper products to offset their manufacturing job losses, just as the 'have-not' nations get a shot at growing a middle class. This would appear to suggest the further decline in the power of organized labour unions.
It has occurred to me, thus it has occurred to government, that a drone-related 'accident' is a statistical certainty if their use continues to grow. It will be peddled through the news outlets as an unfortunate sacrifice for your national security. "Think of all the lives it's saved", "Piloted planes collide too", and maybe "Casualties in the War on Terror" may be used to church it up.
Yes. Beliefs held dear to an individual seldom follow a straight party line, discounting the ditto heads who repeat verbatim what they hear on their single source of news and information. I find myself agreeing in principle with different parts of both conservative and liberal political platforms, but it occurs to me that men/women in office from both sides of the aisle seem willing to compromise their political convictions to strengthen their positions. There is very nearly a cabal amongst entrenched power-wielding officials, and when your freedoms get in their way, it is arguably in their interest to weaken them,
Well... there is truth in what you say, but a lifetime of observing has given me cause to carefully examine Authority's use of force. The police can have their job. I do not want it; but law enforcement is a necessary evil, if you will. More times than people want to believe, a posse of college-age men in blue are chasing a 'bad guy' generating the collective testosterone of a rugby scrum. Apologies to the twenty-somethings, but as every older fellow knows, that is not the time of your life when the most rational decisions are made.________________________________________________The penchant for the obvious in me says I've used your post as an excuse to pontificate.
Black kittens do better at football and worse on the SAT. Yellow kittens can't drive and the Bombay browns are, truly, smarter than a 5th Grader. Jest saying.
Police were pursuing a vehicle for an unnamed offense which ran several red lights before striking Reisse's vehicle at an intersection. The cynic in me says the offense wasn't extremely grievous if it has thus far gone unnamed: these testosterone-fueled police chases kill far too many innocents.
We are but one global calamity from denying the universe it's most cerebral witness. If you are afforded the luxury, diversify your bets/investments/hopes/dreams as widely as possible
An army bud of mine became enamored with a dojo teacher who used strikes with sticks on his students shins and forearms to thicken the bones for defensive purposes. Not only was this fellow difficult to strike, when you did hit him, it hurt you an order of magnitude more than it hurt him.
The negligible benefit of POV's that recharge from the fossil-fueled grid makes the entire carbon footprint thing a moot point. Essentially, the more individuals who take advantage of the electric automobile, the less the overall benefit to us as a community. We can barely/not quite barely amp the grid up in Texas and California to cover the summer's A/C demands... the supply is not there for millions of drivers to switch from a fossil fuel to electricity generated from the burning of fossil fuels.
This is the price for being "Linked In"... most of these companies are rather unconventional business models. They generally do not charge users for their services, unless you consider that your privacy is the ticket price for the show.
Paying a licensed tradesman to work on your home is no more guarantee of proficiency than a driver's license is a guarantee to responsibly operate a motor vehicle. That said, the State is in the business of protecting citizens, often the most vulnerable, from unscrupulous contractors. Licensing and insurance requirements are two ways they attempt to do this. There are also issues involving public safety with some of the trades, particularly plumbing and electrical.
Actually, in most of the States we've worked in, the plumbing trade is licensed in stages. Baby plumbers get apprentice cards for four to eight thousand working hours, the hours are signed off on by the responsible Master plumber before State testing for a Journeyman license, and then a given number of work hours are required as a Journeyman to test at the State for a Master's license. Normally, there is but one Master per plumbing company, and he's generally not the fellow crawling under your sink. In fact, he's often the owner of the Plumbing Company. Various other licensing levels exist (tradesman, irrigation specialist, fire protection, water well, etc.) and each State has it's own Plumbing Board and unique licensing requirements.
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I remember a meeting between an American lad and a Soviet napeHb during Krushchev's stint as Premier... even then it occurred to me how much distrust had been indoctrinated into my callow mind. Your fearless leaders are of the same stock as mine, and the bulk of them are sociopaths because that is the surest way to get ahead, footloose and conscience-free. You and your Countrymen are bridled with the same ingrained & misguided tribal loyalties as me and mine, but at heart we are mostly unlike both our leaders and our stereotypes.
I am of the rather cynical view that the Constitution is a thorn in the side of our fearless leaders, and yet a thorn we must endeavor to keep embedded. Regarding the story, whether or not the surveillance of American citizens is done on the above-board budget is probably irrelevant. If this surveilled intelligence has helped its gatherers in even an ephemeral way, the Pentagon's Black Budget is larger than around 120 nations' GDP. Tweaking H.R.Haldeman, the toothpaste is out of the tube and they don't want to get it back in.
This, and I am led to believe many of these "prologue ads", like the overpriced refreshments, actually go a long way toward the theatres bottom line: unlike much of the ticket revenue. The rather interesting news in US movies is that they're actually generating much more revenue overseas now than domestically, which is why you now see Angelina's husband portrayed as a UN operative rather than a rogue American superhero saving the World. Pacific Rim, title and all, is all wrapped up to do well in Asia. It is a different market these days... a bit less Americocentric.
Well played.
...as would any sentient consideration of risk & reward. And not to be that rare doomsayer on /. , but my personal experience with for-profit business leads me to believe it's not always worked out in this fashion. Ferinstance, I'm the guy at my company in charge of coordinating distribution of our products to the WWmarket. My buddy Joe, who sells space on a transport for Wewontcinq Shipping, always lays out for prime ribeyes thick as a 50's pinup girl at Company BBQ's. He's never been perfect with the paperwork, but he's the life of the party. You See, the very best companies make decisions like they're Borg, but most are staffed by beautifully imperfect people.
Can they even prove where the bitcoins came from?
The sad irony is even if they cannot, the burden of proof is now on their former owner. If he takes the time, money, and council to prove these assets didn't come from nefarious activity, well, he'll likely be in the red recovering his eight hundred and change.
Perhaps these are anti-JZ hackers cleverly disguising their activities by posing as activists.
Oh, you're talking about the backbone of the U>S>education system that has allowed American children to slip behind their Worldly peers in nearly all measurable categories. Ask yourself this: Do the unions make it more difficult to get rid of someone not doing their job?
This reads consonant with a Poe's Law-invoking religious diatribe. Where any one side has too much power in the struggle between labor and ownership, ludicrous conditions are likely to exist. 19th century worker safety and living wages were "negotiated" for, rather than benevolently given, but there is some precedent suggesting powerful labor unions are willing to extort and bully on par with corporate barons. The new world order suggests that jobs owned by multi-national corporations will continue to flow to poorer and poorer countries for their low wages and minimal governmental oversight. The 'have' countries will continue to enjoy cheaper products to offset their manufacturing job losses, just as the 'have-not' nations get a shot at growing a middle class. This would appear to suggest the further decline in the power of organized labour unions.
This. You miss all the shots you don't take.
It has occurred to me, thus it has occurred to government, that a drone-related 'accident' is a statistical certainty if their use continues to grow. It will be peddled through the news outlets as an unfortunate sacrifice for your national security. "Think of all the lives it's saved", "Piloted planes collide too", and maybe "Casualties in the War on Terror" may be used to church it up.
Planting DNA at a crime scene would be an order of magnitude easier than synthesizing fingerprints.
Yes. Beliefs held dear to an individual seldom follow a straight party line, discounting the ditto heads who repeat verbatim what they hear on their single source of news and information. I find myself agreeing in principle with different parts of both conservative and liberal political platforms, but it occurs to me that men/women in office from both sides of the aisle seem willing to compromise their political convictions to strengthen their positions. There is very nearly a cabal amongst entrenched power-wielding officials, and when your freedoms get in their way, it is arguably in their interest to weaken them,
Well... there is truth in what you say, but a lifetime of observing has given me cause to carefully examine Authority's use of force. The police can have their job. I do not want it; but law enforcement is a necessary evil, if you will. More times than people want to believe, a posse of college-age men in blue are chasing a 'bad guy' generating the collective testosterone of a rugby scrum. Apologies to the twenty-somethings, but as every older fellow knows, that is not the time of your life when the most rational decisions are made.________________________________________________The penchant for the obvious in me says I've used your post as an excuse to pontificate.
Black kittens do better at football and worse on the SAT. Yellow kittens can't drive and the Bombay browns are, truly, smarter than a 5th Grader. Jest saying.
Police were pursuing a vehicle for an unnamed offense which ran several red lights before striking Reisse's vehicle at an intersection. The cynic in me says the offense wasn't extremely grievous if it has thus far gone unnamed: these testosterone-fueled police chases kill far too many innocents.
We are but one global calamity from denying the universe it's most cerebral witness. If you are afforded the luxury, diversify your bets/investments/hopes/dreams as widely as possible
Hmmm. Simple and effective. How efficient.
An army bud of mine became enamored with a dojo teacher who used strikes with sticks on his students shins and forearms to thicken the bones for defensive purposes. Not only was this fellow difficult to strike, when you did hit him, it hurt you an order of magnitude more than it hurt him.
The negligible benefit of POV's that recharge from the fossil-fueled grid makes the entire carbon footprint thing a moot point. Essentially, the more individuals who take advantage of the electric automobile, the less the overall benefit to us as a community. We can barely/not quite barely amp the grid up in Texas and California to cover the summer's A/C demands... the supply is not there for millions of drivers to switch from a fossil fuel to electricity generated from the burning of fossil fuels.
This is the price for being "Linked In"... most of these companies are rather unconventional business models. They generally do not charge users for their services, unless you consider that your privacy is the ticket price for the show.
3) Don't chew your fingernails.
Paying a licensed tradesman to work on your home is no more guarantee of proficiency than a driver's license is a guarantee to responsibly operate a motor vehicle. That said, the State is in the business of protecting citizens, often the most vulnerable, from unscrupulous contractors. Licensing and insurance requirements are two ways they attempt to do this. There are also issues involving public safety with some of the trades, particularly plumbing and electrical.
Actually, in most of the States we've worked in, the plumbing trade is licensed in stages. Baby plumbers get apprentice cards for four to eight thousand working hours, the hours are signed off on by the responsible Master plumber before State testing for a Journeyman license, and then a given number of work hours are required as a Journeyman to test at the State for a Master's license. Normally, there is but one Master per plumbing company, and he's generally not the fellow crawling under your sink. In fact, he's often the owner of the Plumbing Company. Various other licensing levels exist (tradesman, irrigation specialist, fire protection, water well, etc.) and each State has it's own Plumbing Board and unique licensing requirements.
...this would be eminently more enjoyable under the influence of c.sativa.