I must admit I'm not too experienced in NYC's subways to be able to tell on my own, but does this new map accurately show the length of the different lines? Because it looks like it doesn't. I would think the #1 point of a subway map would be to help someone relate the underground routes to the landmarks above, and that the length of the different lines on the subway map relates accurately to the length of the ride taken. And the distance between the stops on the map reflective of the actual distances on the streets? Because it sure looks like it doesn't. The walk between two stops on lower manhattan looks like it would be much shorter that the walk between stops in Harlem or Brooklyn. If someone overlayed a roadmap onto that map, it would look like a fucking acid trip.
It's a pretty map, but it requires an extra level of abstraction for users to properly understand. NYC natives will understand the map just fine, but visitors will find it MORE confusing.
Playing Devil's Advocate, and just for the sake of argument, I would rather have a plastic gun that might explode in my face than none at all, if I am facing a life and death situation and my government won't allow me a proper gun. It raises my odds of survival from nothing to something.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team.
Giving these little shits the benefit of the doubt is what creates them. Teach the little 3 year old that he just has to do something cute and charming to get out of trouble, and guess what, you've raised a future bad actor in society.
Isn't all empathy pretend? One imagines what the other person is feeling, the same way they imagine anything else. The difference is whether they let it control their actions. I've always thought the empathy definition of psychopathy was flawed. It seems too simple, almost as dumb as "they hate our freedoms", to imagine that the only problem with psychopaths/sociopaths is that they don't have the capacity to care.
Based on my experience, nearly all kids start out with their empathy switch turned off. Part of raising children is teaching them how to empathize. Even if you watch animals raise their young, you can see the young ones testing out their strength and bullying abilities, and the mother or father animal has to swat them when they cross the line from play to meanness.
I thought the single price of a stamp was one of the things that made the post office popular and useful. I'm with you on the delivery side. I pay EXTRA for a PO Box because my mail service sucks balls. If it was the other way around, and I had to pay extra for home delivery and nothing for pickup, I'd be perfectly happy. Or, on the other hand, I'd be happy to pay for home delivery if they made it a premium service that I could effectively complain about.
What's hurting the post office, besides the Congressional madness, is the cream skimming done by the remailing companies. They do the profitable work (long distance bulk shipping) and offload the hard work (door to door delivery) to the post office.
The only way to sustain a bank account that pays compound interest is ultimately have the inflation rate closely match it. In short, to fake it.
I think it's more correct to say that savings accounts reflect the inflation rate, not the other way around. Even in a flat, inflation-free economy, the churn of stupid decisions, retirements and investments will generate some growth for people lucky or smart enough to be on the winning side of the investments. The bank generally gets their money back whether a borrower's big idea succeeds or fails.
Gnome had the right idea (merging tablet and desktop interfaces), they just did it wrong. Microsoft, with a couple of exceptions, did it mostly right. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks that, but after 5 minutes of playing with a Windows 8 tablet, I was hooked. I can do tablet stuff AND desktop stuff? Sold.
I am not victim blaming at all, but consider the idea that your lawyer was complicit in the blue wall effect. She convinced you to lay off the cops, which just perpetuated the effect.
I agree with your point, but I did want to add something about the Boston thing: from some of the anecdotal stories I've heard, the idea that the city was shutdown is vastly overstated. There were plenty of things people couldn't do, but they weren't arresting people for leaving their houses, and people could generally move about as they pleased. With the restriction that they were probably going to be searched. What WAS being done, however, is that the media weren't being allowed anywhere near any of the hotspots. So what was in reality a dragnet style search became a "lockdown", simply because the media wasn't able to get in there and pester everyone.
As always, one size does not fit all. That yearly mammograms cause more cancer via radiation than it catches might raise the costs and the prevalence of all cancers in the population, it doesn't change that there will be many, many people whose cancer is caught early and treated successfully. Plus, one has to imagine that of the small group of people who conceivably get cancer from the xrays, most of them were probably going to get cancer sooner rather than later. It's herd risk versus individual risk. And a signal to noise ratio problem. If you increase the signal, you are going to increase the noise. But you know it is happening and can account for it.
Not to mention, at least in the medical world, most tests have data about what their false positive versus false negative rates are. There is no perfect test, but you want one that gives false positives rather than false negatives. I mean, I can claim that I can detect cancer by pinching bottoms, and be very nearly 100% right in telling every person I see that they are cancer free.
He's probably one of those ones that deserve top tier pay. So whenever he gets a job offer for 3% more salary, he jumps ship. But since he's always the new guy, he's expendable and gets laid off first. So even if his rate of pay is premium, his net isn't very good.
They are called lesser INCLUDED charges. They are a part of the initial charge. I've known this since before the trial started; if Zimmerman and his lawyers didn't they are the only ones to blame.
The continual assertion that the Pope and his Bishops are the only ones who can commune directly with God on our behalf is just one of many reasons non-Catholic Christians have serious problems with the Vatican and it's historical inhabitants.
I've never heard anyone from the Catholic Church make that claim.
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I must admit I'm not too experienced in NYC's subways to be able to tell on my own, but does this new map accurately show the length of the different lines? Because it looks like it doesn't. I would think the #1 point of a subway map would be to help someone relate the underground routes to the landmarks above, and that the length of the different lines on the subway map relates accurately to the length of the ride taken. And the distance between the stops on the map reflective of the actual distances on the streets? Because it sure looks like it doesn't. The walk between two stops on lower manhattan looks like it would be much shorter that the walk between stops in Harlem or Brooklyn. If someone overlayed a roadmap onto that map, it would look like a fucking acid trip.
It's a pretty map, but it requires an extra level of abstraction for users to properly understand. NYC natives will understand the map just fine, but visitors will find it MORE confusing.
Playing Devil's Advocate, and just for the sake of argument, I would rather have a plastic gun that might explode in my face than none at all, if I am facing a life and death situation and my government won't allow me a proper gun. It raises my odds of survival from nothing to something.
3D printing isn't magic. It's just an inkjet that prints plastic.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team.
Depends what kind of music they play.
Giving these little shits the benefit of the doubt is what creates them. Teach the little 3 year old that he just has to do something cute and charming to get out of trouble, and guess what, you've raised a future bad actor in society.
And interestingly, neither of those is an actual psychiatric diagnosis.
Isn't all empathy pretend? One imagines what the other person is feeling, the same way they imagine anything else. The difference is whether they let it control their actions. I've always thought the empathy definition of psychopathy was flawed. It seems too simple, almost as dumb as "they hate our freedoms", to imagine that the only problem with psychopaths/sociopaths is that they don't have the capacity to care.
Based on my experience, nearly all kids start out with their empathy switch turned off. Part of raising children is teaching them how to empathize. Even if you watch animals raise their young, you can see the young ones testing out their strength and bullying abilities, and the mother or father animal has to swat them when they cross the line from play to meanness.
I thought the single price of a stamp was one of the things that made the post office popular and useful. I'm with you on the delivery side. I pay EXTRA for a PO Box because my mail service sucks balls. If it was the other way around, and I had to pay extra for home delivery and nothing for pickup, I'd be perfectly happy. Or, on the other hand, I'd be happy to pay for home delivery if they made it a premium service that I could effectively complain about.
What's hurting the post office, besides the Congressional madness, is the cream skimming done by the remailing companies. They do the profitable work (long distance bulk shipping) and offload the hard work (door to door delivery) to the post office.
I've heard the opposite: junk mail is what keeps the lights on for the USPS.
The only way to sustain a bank account that pays compound interest is ultimately have the inflation rate closely match it. In short, to fake it.
I think it's more correct to say that savings accounts reflect the inflation rate, not the other way around. Even in a flat, inflation-free economy, the churn of stupid decisions, retirements and investments will generate some growth for people lucky or smart enough to be on the winning side of the investments. The bank generally gets their money back whether a borrower's big idea succeeds or fails.
How many citizens would smoke the unsolicited crack, free or not?
Gnome had the right idea (merging tablet and desktop interfaces), they just did it wrong. Microsoft, with a couple of exceptions, did it mostly right. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks that, but after 5 minutes of playing with a Windows 8 tablet, I was hooked. I can do tablet stuff AND desktop stuff? Sold.
I am not victim blaming at all, but consider the idea that your lawyer was complicit in the blue wall effect. She convinced you to lay off the cops, which just perpetuated the effect.
I agree with your point, but I did want to add something about the Boston thing: from some of the anecdotal stories I've heard, the idea that the city was shutdown is vastly overstated. There were plenty of things people couldn't do, but they weren't arresting people for leaving their houses, and people could generally move about as they pleased. With the restriction that they were probably going to be searched. What WAS being done, however, is that the media weren't being allowed anywhere near any of the hotspots. So what was in reality a dragnet style search became a "lockdown", simply because the media wasn't able to get in there and pester everyone.
As always, one size does not fit all. That yearly mammograms cause more cancer via radiation than it catches might raise the costs and the prevalence of all cancers in the population, it doesn't change that there will be many, many people whose cancer is caught early and treated successfully. Plus, one has to imagine that of the small group of people who conceivably get cancer from the xrays, most of them were probably going to get cancer sooner rather than later. It's herd risk versus individual risk. And a signal to noise ratio problem. If you increase the signal, you are going to increase the noise. But you know it is happening and can account for it.
Not to mention, at least in the medical world, most tests have data about what their false positive versus false negative rates are. There is no perfect test, but you want one that gives false positives rather than false negatives. I mean, I can claim that I can detect cancer by pinching bottoms, and be very nearly 100% right in telling every person I see that they are cancer free.
Exactly. The only enterprise grade device someone really needs in their house is a UPS. The rest can be whatever is good enough.
Who do you think we owe the money to?
He's probably one of those ones that deserve top tier pay. So whenever he gets a job offer for 3% more salary, he jumps ship. But since he's always the new guy, he's expendable and gets laid off first. So even if his rate of pay is premium, his net isn't very good.
You are making my brain hurt.
They are called lesser INCLUDED charges. They are a part of the initial charge. I've known this since before the trial started; if Zimmerman and his lawyers didn't they are the only ones to blame.
There is still 32 bit only hardware.
The continual assertion that the Pope and his Bishops are the only ones who can commune directly with God on our behalf is just one of many reasons non-Catholic Christians have serious problems with the Vatican and it's historical inhabitants.
I've never heard anyone from the Catholic Church make that claim.
I think the popular myth was that it was the Catholic church who was behind the killings, when, apparently, it was the Spanish government.