According to experts 30 years ago, the was simply no way we could produce enough food for 5 billion people. Now we're doing it for 7.
You do realize that billions of people are undernourished and/or starving, right? I'm not saying we don't have the means to feed them properly, but it's wrong to say that we are feeding that many people.
why not just collect unemployment until you can find a decent-paying gig?
Look up the information regarding unemployment benefits on your state's website. It's not as much money as you might think.
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You didn't tell me anything I couldn't skim in a bookstore. You've summarized each chapter into two sentences and said you recommend the book. Spend a little more time providing a critical evaluation - it would be helpful in getting people to decide whether to read the book.
Actually, no, because there is virtually no risk involved: EVERYONE gets sick, and EVERYONE dies, and about half of EVERYONE's health care costs come in the last six months of life.
Yeah, and that's already paid by government health insurance: Medicare. Once you hit 65, you're on Medicare, not private insurance, so the argument that massive costs occur at the end of life is not really an argument against nationalized healthcare - we already have that portion of it.
I find it a little saddening that nearly everyone complains about this type of legislation while at the same time demanding that something be done about global warming.
My issue is with individual states all making their own requirements. States rights is a great thing, but if every state makes up their own rules with regards to televisions, it's a pain to manufacture and sell them, and the costs go up. If there is a sensible standard to agree to, let's get all states on the same page.
If it last for up to 8 hours, that should be more than enough even for a long flight across the Pacific or Atlantic.
I fly between ATL and ICN frequently. It's 12-14 hours. Of course, Korean Air is nice enough to offer electrical outlets, so battery life is not relevant.
Out of curiosity, what has been the ethnicity of the majority of airplane hijackers in the US over the past 40 years or so? < snip > Until 19 white people fly planes into buildings, and another 19 Chinese people do the same, your argument is flawed.
Child molesters are more commonly middle aged white men. Should we start scooping them up at the mall and questioning them? Pick whatever age/race/gender/whatever category you're personally in, and I can probably find a crime that is more frequently committed by your group than others. We'll just start detaining you from time to time because of your greater likelihood of committing this crime. No problem, right? Just good police work in your world.
The end result is, statistically on average, ABS has actually created more dangerous roads for the majority of the driving population.
You are surely not correct. Automobile insurance companies offer discounts on policies for cars that have ABS. They would only do this if it were in their financial interest, which would mean that it is safer for the average driver to have ABS than to not have it.
What are these mysterious notifications that won't invoke a desire to perform some sort of action from the user?
They're for the rest of us who are actually working on something and not waiting for the next distraction. It's nice to see the first few lines of an email for a second or two and be able to glance at it to decide whether it is worthy of interrupting what I'm working on. It's annoying that the notification is clickable because there are times when it appears directly under where I was about to click, so rather than perform the operation I intended, the system now opens an email that I didn't want open. You shouldn't spontaneously change the behavior of clicking in a region of the screen. The 'alert' that Outlook uses happens to appear on the screen in the same place that I dock the 'properties' pane in Visual Studio, so I frequently have an email pop open when I wanted to change an attribute of a control.
likewise, abortion shouldn't be something to be held against a someone for having. the cultural stigma that still surrounds abortion is a vestige of the religious fundamentalism that dominated our culture in the past. there's no good reason to look down on someone for making the responsible decision to not have a child when they're not ready.
Very few people would argue that abortion is a good thing or even not a bad thing, even people that are pro choice. Abortions are very emotionally taxing, and rightly so - you're making a very heavy decision. There's no point in flippantly minimizing this fact. We should do what we can to minimize the need for abortion through contraception as well as by trying to create an economic environment in which people are not unable to support children. Regarding "responsible decision" - the more responsible decision would come before getting pregnant - avoid the need for an abortion and view it as a last resort.
At some point, the religious conservatives will see the light and realize that this issue is not solved with hatred and laws, but with compassion. No one wants to have an abortion and we should look at the root reasons that people end up in this situation and do what we can to alleviate those problems.
I pity the school system that relies on these characters to educate and "guide and discipline" any child.
If you really want kids to get a good computer education, then become a teacher. I'm serious. It's time to stop complaining about the quality of education and get in the trenches and change it.
Why is that patent worthy? It's not that people haven't thought of that before - it's rather obvious - it's just that generally restaurants haven't spent much money on such systems and there was no need to build something that the market wouldn't be interested in buying. Sorry, but this has no business getting a patent.
It's easy to say "ensure the government is incapable of abuse". Until a solution to this can be provided, I will oppose video taping the country. It only takes another 9/11 before any restrictions you think you put in place are revoked as part of the knee jerk political action that will be undertaken to make the populace feel safer.
As a private citizen, I am not endowed with any extraordinary powers. As such, there is no compelling reason to record my public activities. With police officers, they are public employees who are given extraordinary powers. As such, there is a compelling reason to record their activities while in the act of their public duties involving these powers.
On the other side, there is a compelling and important reason to not record the activities of the general public. It would provide the government with a substantial database with a large potential for abuse. Were we to suffer another act similar to 9/11, calls would be rampant to develop technology to mine this video archive for patterns of activity. We could potentially have the government indexing and analyzing everything you do outside of your own home and forming opinions about what type of citizen you are. Were we ever to need to rise up against the government, we'd be at a terrible disadvantage. The fact that we have not needed to do so in over 200 years should not affect our diligence in maintaining restrictions on our government.
I'm sorry, but it is a very substantial and important difference between recording the activity of police and recording activity of the citizenry.
I disagree WRT to everyone being recorded. Sorry, but there's a difference between some people I don't know seeing me pick my nose and it being recorded for future ridicule. However, I do believe that the police should be recorded at all times. They are given considerable power, and recording is a reasonable means of providing oversight.
"A well-educated electorate, being necessary to the self-governance of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed."
That's an utterly terribly twisting. "well educated electorate" is not remotely the same as "well regulated militia". There isn't anything at all "well regulated" about every random person having a gun. In fact, it's the exact opposite, even if you'd like to argue for regulated meaning functioning. It's not functioning any more than it's regulated. A militia is not simply a vast number of unrelated gun owners. An educated electorate actually can be a bunch of unrelated people - it doesn't require the organization necessary of a well [regulated|functioning} militia. I'm sorry you've so horribly construed an argument to the point that you think that somehow that sentence is comparable, but it simply isn't and any further argument on the basis of it is null and void. You're welcome to try again if you'd like.
Medicine is great if you are prepared for the huge amount of student loan debt that comes with it.
Well, the salary you'll get is more than enough to cover the debt. But, along the way, you'll get brainwashed about how "doctors don't make what they used to" by people who will then get in their Mercedes and drive home, never realizing that they make 6x the median income and many people can't even afford their services.
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You do realize that billions of people are undernourished and/or starving, right? I'm not saying we don't have the means to feed them properly, but it's wrong to say that we are feeding that many people.
No, see, money worship is the one religion the politicians really want to kept in government.
Look up the information regarding unemployment benefits on your state's website. It's not as much money as you might think.
You didn't tell me anything I couldn't skim in a bookstore. You've summarized each chapter into two sentences and said you recommend the book. Spend a little more time providing a critical evaluation - it would be helpful in getting people to decide whether to read the book.
Yeah, and that's already paid by government health insurance: Medicare. Once you hit 65, you're on Medicare, not private insurance, so the argument that massive costs occur at the end of life is not really an argument against nationalized healthcare - we already have that portion of it.
No, the interstate commerce clause was intended to allow Congress to do whatever they want.
My issue is with individual states all making their own requirements. States rights is a great thing, but if every state makes up their own rules with regards to televisions, it's a pain to manufacture and sell them, and the costs go up. If there is a sensible standard to agree to, let's get all states on the same page.
I fly between ATL and ICN frequently. It's 12-14 hours. Of course, Korean Air is nice enough to offer electrical outlets, so battery life is not relevant.
I have an OTA antenna, and I get a better HD picture with it than I do from the compressed signal that the cable provider sends me.
Child molesters are more commonly middle aged white men. Should we start scooping them up at the mall and questioning them? Pick whatever age/race/gender/whatever category you're personally in, and I can probably find a crime that is more frequently committed by your group than others. We'll just start detaining you from time to time because of your greater likelihood of committing this crime. No problem, right? Just good police work in your world.
You are surely not correct. Automobile insurance companies offer discounts on policies for cars that have ABS. They would only do this if it were in their financial interest, which would mean that it is safer for the average driver to have ABS than to not have it.
Open Task Manager and kill the associated process. I do this to installers that have a 'Click OK to reboot' and no option to decline.
They're for the rest of us who are actually working on something and not waiting for the next distraction. It's nice to see the first few lines of an email for a second or two and be able to glance at it to decide whether it is worthy of interrupting what I'm working on. It's annoying that the notification is clickable because there are times when it appears directly under where I was about to click, so rather than perform the operation I intended, the system now opens an email that I didn't want open. You shouldn't spontaneously change the behavior of clicking in a region of the screen. The 'alert' that Outlook uses happens to appear on the screen in the same place that I dock the 'properties' pane in Visual Studio, so I frequently have an email pop open when I wanted to change an attribute of a control.
Very few people would argue that abortion is a good thing or even not a bad thing, even people that are pro choice. Abortions are very emotionally taxing, and rightly so - you're making a very heavy decision. There's no point in flippantly minimizing this fact. We should do what we can to minimize the need for abortion through contraception as well as by trying to create an economic environment in which people are not unable to support children. Regarding "responsible decision" - the more responsible decision would come before getting pregnant - avoid the need for an abortion and view it as a last resort.
At some point, the religious conservatives will see the light and realize that this issue is not solved with hatred and laws, but with compassion. No one wants to have an abortion and we should look at the root reasons that people end up in this situation and do what we can to alleviate those problems.
If you really want kids to get a good computer education, then become a teacher. I'm serious. It's time to stop complaining about the quality of education and get in the trenches and change it.
Why is that patent worthy? It's not that people haven't thought of that before - it's rather obvious - it's just that generally restaurants haven't spent much money on such systems and there was no need to build something that the market wouldn't be interested in buying. Sorry, but this has no business getting a patent.
I figured they would just have a visitor bring it to them.
It's easy to say "ensure the government is incapable of abuse". Until a solution to this can be provided, I will oppose video taping the country. It only takes another 9/11 before any restrictions you think you put in place are revoked as part of the knee jerk political action that will be undertaken to make the populace feel safer.
As a private citizen, I am not endowed with any extraordinary powers. As such, there is no compelling reason to record my public activities. With police officers, they are public employees who are given extraordinary powers. As such, there is a compelling reason to record their activities while in the act of their public duties involving these powers.
On the other side, there is a compelling and important reason to not record the activities of the general public. It would provide the government with a substantial database with a large potential for abuse. Were we to suffer another act similar to 9/11, calls would be rampant to develop technology to mine this video archive for patterns of activity. We could potentially have the government indexing and analyzing everything you do outside of your own home and forming opinions about what type of citizen you are. Were we ever to need to rise up against the government, we'd be at a terrible disadvantage. The fact that we have not needed to do so in over 200 years should not affect our diligence in maintaining restrictions on our government.
I'm sorry, but it is a very substantial and important difference between recording the activity of police and recording activity of the citizenry.
I disagree WRT to everyone being recorded. Sorry, but there's a difference between some people I don't know seeing me pick my nose and it being recorded for future ridicule. However, I do believe that the police should be recorded at all times. They are given considerable power, and recording is a reasonable means of providing oversight.
That's an utterly terribly twisting. "well educated electorate" is not remotely the same as "well regulated militia". There isn't anything at all "well regulated" about every random person having a gun. In fact, it's the exact opposite, even if you'd like to argue for regulated meaning functioning. It's not functioning any more than it's regulated. A militia is not simply a vast number of unrelated gun owners. An educated electorate actually can be a bunch of unrelated people - it doesn't require the organization necessary of a well [regulated|functioning} militia. I'm sorry you've so horribly construed an argument to the point that you think that somehow that sentence is comparable, but it simply isn't and any further argument on the basis of it is null and void. You're welcome to try again if you'd like.
It only does so if you ignore the first clause, which we appear to have altered the English language to avoid having to contend with.
I think nationalism is something that has a stronger appeal to people than geekdom. "American" has turned into a somewhat creepy religion.
Get a Facebook account. You won't be able to remember who they are, but you will have a list of the names and what they're doing every five minutes.
Well, the salary you'll get is more than enough to cover the debt. But, along the way, you'll get brainwashed about how "doctors don't make what they used to" by people who will then get in their Mercedes and drive home, never realizing that they make 6x the median income and many people can't even afford their services.