This is a pattern I've started seeing for a while- gas prices start raising when the economy starts cooking again, and then people get spooked and reduce their spending in other places and the economy slows down again. People don't seem to realize that oil is no longer cheap.
I was arguing for privatization of roads, I'm against the privatization of things the government should be doing. But for some roads, a toll makes more sense.
As an added bonus, nuclear power plants always need ample water, so you're guaranteed to get a private lake, river, or beachfront property, no matter which one you buy.
They need to fire their investment bankers then, because even in my basically untouched 401k, I was back to even within 6-9 months of the bottom of the 2008 crash.
You have defined "conservative", not "libertarian". A libertarian wouldn't ask for the government's help in cleaning it up. They would either be responsible, or sell the property to someone who values it and THEY would clean it up. But that is the fatal flaw of libertarianism: they assume everyone would be as responsible they believe themselves to be. With maybe a nice topping of ignoring the idea of negative value and externalities. In the libertarian paradise, they could sell or abandon the site, and someone would find value in it. But in reality, it is an albatross that would cost a new owner tons of money, even if the price was zero.
You do know that roads require maintenance and repair, right? That brand new road is going to be a pothole filled moonscape in 50 years, and will need to be completely reconstructed. Should everyone pay for that, or just the users?
Because he had a million dollars that they wanted. The only way to get their hands on that million was to offer (or accept) the easier odds and the discount.
Of course the earth is going to do what the earth is going to do. The "it's warming because the earth said so" only works if the earth is currently *trying* to warm up through some natural process. The question, and the problem for many, is: what if we are messing with it? We don't know what the planet is trying to do, what if it is trying to cool off and our meddling is working against that? If the pendulum is going in that direction, what happens when it swings back to a natural warming cycle? It's gonna get hot, and millions will likely die. The sensible answer is to quit messing with it.
Assuming for a moment that you are correct about that number, 1% is HUGE on a global scale. The earth is a big energy sink rubber band (dynamic) kind of thing. Regularly adding 1% will change the dynamics sooner or later.
Talk to some of the people not in your department and ask them what they would like to hear about.
And I also like the idea above about logs. Not screenfulls of actual logs (unless for visual effect: cat/this/months/firewall/messages and let 'er scroll), but statistics and things like that. Do something about how to make easy to remember passwords. Do a presentation about what your department does all day. Many people don't really see what the IT people do all day. So show them a graph of all the tickets your dept handled all year, along with the projects you accomplished.
They didn't actually kill anyone, it was a bit where the tall curly haired guy with bad teeth was trying to catch a ferry and drove the test vehicle into the ocean with the other presenter riding in the trunk.
The percentage of NPR revenue that comes from federal funding for NPR is in the low single digits. And apparently, This American Life is produced independently from NPR and merely distributed on the NPR network.
Step one is being willing to say no to longer work hours. If that doesn't work, then maybe a union is the answer.
One issue that causes the longer hours is that employers aren't willing to hire more hands. Part of the problem is the expense of adding employees beyond just paying wages. It's cheaper to just get your people to work more hours, even at time and a half, than it is to hire on another body. Hence we have the current employment situation: employers fired their most worthless 5% of the workforce in 2008-2009, and realized that they don't need them anymore because they can get the other 95% to fill in the gaps, or just train the customers to not care about the 5% worse service. (Speaking in broad generalizations, of course.) The solution is the above: employees need to be assertive about their rights and desires regarding working conditions, even if it means reprisal. Rights not exercised become atrophied.
It depends on how many punctuation marks you are allowed. 88^10 is approx equal to 7776^5 My keyboard appears to have 62 alphanumerics + 22 punctuation. If you are restricted by more than 4, the 5 words wins.
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This is a pattern I've started seeing for a while- gas prices start raising when the economy starts cooking again, and then people get spooked and reduce their spending in other places and the economy slows down again. People don't seem to realize that oil is no longer cheap.
Dammit. I WASN'T arguing for.... sorry.
I was arguing for privatization of roads, I'm against the privatization of things the government should be doing. But for some roads, a toll makes more sense.
And the food-truck drivers pay the tolls, which gets passed along to the consumers.
As an added bonus, nuclear power plants always need ample water, so you're guaranteed to get a private lake, river, or beachfront property, no matter which one you buy.
A fission hole?
They need to fire their investment bankers then, because even in my basically untouched 401k, I was back to even within 6-9 months of the bottom of the 2008 crash.
You have defined "conservative", not "libertarian". A libertarian wouldn't ask for the government's help in cleaning it up. They would either be responsible, or sell the property to someone who values it and THEY would clean it up. But that is the fatal flaw of libertarianism: they assume everyone would be as responsible they believe themselves to be. With maybe a nice topping of ignoring the idea of negative value and externalities. In the libertarian paradise, they could sell or abandon the site, and someone would find value in it. But in reality, it is an albatross that would cost a new owner tons of money, even if the price was zero.
You do know that roads require maintenance and repair, right? That brand new road is going to be a pothole filled moonscape in 50 years, and will need to be completely reconstructed. Should everyone pay for that, or just the users?
The atmosphere is not a static system, it is a dynamic one and in such systems, small changes can result in large effects.
Probably because the anti-inflammatory effects of aspirin prevented the conditions that caused brain bleeds in the first place.
Not intelligence. Memory.
Because he had a million dollars that they wanted. The only way to get their hands on that million was to offer (or accept) the easier odds and the discount.
Of course the earth is going to do what the earth is going to do. The "it's warming because the earth said so" only works if the earth is currently *trying* to warm up through some natural process. The question, and the problem for many, is: what if we are messing with it? We don't know what the planet is trying to do, what if it is trying to cool off and our meddling is working against that? If the pendulum is going in that direction, what happens when it swings back to a natural warming cycle? It's gonna get hot, and millions will likely die. The sensible answer is to quit messing with it.
Assuming for a moment that you are correct about that number, 1% is HUGE on a global scale. The earth is a big energy sink rubber band (dynamic) kind of thing. Regularly adding 1% will change the dynamics sooner or later.
Fedora is their bleeding edge distro. Not really meant for prime time like that. It usually works fine for me, but not always.
Talk to some of the people not in your department and ask them what they would like to hear about.
/this/months/firewall/messages and let 'er scroll), but statistics and things like that. Do something about how to make easy to remember passwords. Do a presentation about what your department does all day. Many people don't really see what the IT people do all day. So show them a graph of all the tickets your dept handled all year, along with the projects you accomplished.
And I also like the idea above about logs. Not screenfulls of actual logs (unless for visual effect: cat
They didn't actually kill anyone, it was a bit where the tall curly haired guy with bad teeth was trying to catch a ferry and drove the test vehicle into the ocean with the other presenter riding in the trunk.
The percentage of NPR revenue that comes from federal funding for NPR is in the low single digits. And apparently, This American Life is produced independently from NPR and merely distributed on the NPR network.
You are probably right. I imagine this is Ira Glass using his bully pulpit to tear apart someone else for making him look bad.
I've heard it both ways. Filthy prescriptivist!
Possibly apocryphal, but the reason was that people kept stealing his plates and he eventually gave up.
Step one is being willing to say no to longer work hours. If that doesn't work, then maybe a union is the answer.
One issue that causes the longer hours is that employers aren't willing to hire more hands. Part of the problem is the expense of adding employees beyond just paying wages. It's cheaper to just get your people to work more hours, even at time and a half, than it is to hire on another body. Hence we have the current employment situation: employers fired their most worthless 5% of the workforce in 2008-2009, and realized that they don't need them anymore because they can get the other 95% to fill in the gaps, or just train the customers to not care about the 5% worse service. (Speaking in broad generalizations, of course.) The solution is the above: employees need to be assertive about their rights and desires regarding working conditions, even if it means reprisal. Rights not exercised become atrophied.
If a company is big enough, it will have one of those blanket/site licenses that don't really require counting seats.
I guess my 64 character wifi password is safe then?
It depends on how many punctuation marks you are allowed. 88^10 is approx equal to 7776^5 My keyboard appears to have 62 alphanumerics + 22 punctuation. If you are restricted by more than 4, the 5 words wins.