You'd think so, but remember that these aren't being built by the "government" in a continuously operating design laboratory where the knowledge from all previous generations is leveraged to create the next great fighter jet. It was contracted out to not one, but three (four if you count the engines) different corporations, each with it's own expertise and history. While there was undoubtedly a great deal of aircraft design experience in the teams, the lack of long term mission continuity has been traded for apparent cost savings through a contractor workforce. The facilities for the contractors are, not surprisingly, not co-located, but are in Georgia, Texas, and Washington (state).
It's just you. It's been like this for at least 100 years, and very close to it for 200+. We've been through most of this foolishness before, and we'll do it again. It tends to happen in 50-80 year cycles, as that's about how long people live. Go read about the 1920s, and you'll see much of the same fiscal foolishness. We've actually gotten better at controlling it, but that just means we are ratcheting up the foolishness to the breaking point a bit slower.
It's entirely likely that without the great depression and the advent of the use of Keynesian economics, we would likely see 25%+ unemployment and massive governmental collapse. Instead, we've held steady in return for a huge debt. Unfortunately, it will really take us 10-20 years to dig ourselves out, but as soon as the collapse-panic is over, we expect to see progress/growth. All we've really done is started to set ourselves up for a second collapse where we don't have the ability to borrow our way out of a major correction.
I just hope I have the forethought to avoid losing my retirement savings when it happens.
You'll have a better time arguing that doctors are not, in general, overpaid if you separate what people pay for services from what a physician makes. When I go to the hospital for a couple of days, I can expect to see a bill well into 5 figures. When you break it down, the doctor is probably only getting $80-$100/hr. Now, that's a lot of money when you figure that the average household income in the us is about $50k, or $25/hr for a single wage earner household. It's not when you can expect most licensed professionals (lawyers, engineers, accountants) to be in the $40-100/hr range. If you look at billing for those classes though, you'll find their rates tend to be $80-300/hr.
The bigger problem is that doctors tend to be arrogant sons-of-bitches. I can empathize - my engineering colleagues tend to be the same way. The more money they make, the more intense that characteristic seems to be.
It's all I can figure is the endgame here. I mean, I just sat in a presentation about the future of LTE going up to 1Gbps. On my plan, that means I could hit my limit and get charged another $15 in just a little under 2 seconds.
Nothing is perfect - the goal is to (a) reduce the chances that you are identified as a target and (b) increase the time and effort spent by the thief to clean you out. Smash and grab thieves generally don't break into "empty" cars.
I live in a small town. It doesn't eliminate theft, but it greatly reduces the incidence (which is all the other suggestions really do, short of storing your stuff in a body-mounted safe). I usually leave my truck unlocked, and the bed's cap is always unlocked unless I'm leaving for more than an hour. Of course, my stuff is insured, but it's pretty rare to have stuff stolen most areas around me.
I am planning to mount my iPad in an area that is visible, and I got a locking mount from RAM for that. The lock is very visible (I suspect it's mostly for deterrence). The weak link is that it's not too difficult to disassemble the mount arms by unscrewing so I might purchase a heavy cable to lock it to the base, though even that is easily foiled by bolt cutters.
Those with shovels meeting minimum earth moving criteria shall be stored in one of the following four types of containers, based on their classification see CFR [to be inserted at final hearing review]
Hell, those drugs have their very own federal bureau.
Not really. They share it with Firearms and Explosives, and quite honestly they don't give a shit about tobacco, and only thing they really care about for Alcohol is that you're not stiffing the government out of it's tax stamps. They tend to be present for raids on drugs which are NOT regulated alcohol or tobacco.
Most of your points are refuted by the result of the 18th amendment, and it's ultimate repeal via the 21st, in the US. The mob flourished after prohibition was repealed because we gave them the opportunity to make huge margins and create vast networks for their business, and once alcohol was removed they just moved to other things, fully funded. It's taken decades to reduce the grip of national organized crime.
Although there is a black market for tobacco and alcohol in the US, it is relatively small. The goal of any regulation and tax scheme is to make it difficult and expensive to obtain the "sin" items, without making it so difficult or expensive that the black market can make a profit off of it.
People in the trade will not magically become good, but it would be nice to start reducing the participation of new drug runners in their illicit endeavors rather than encouraging it through the promise of easy wealth.
As for health care, stop covering those diseases, and make it public that smoking, alcohol, an drug related ailments will not be reimbursed by taxpayer funded health care.
Not as I understand it. Vocal Fry is opening the rear of the vocal folds so that they are no longer touching. It's one of 5 ways of making vocalization. Vocal fry and falsetto are the two odd-balls, with the "chest" "head" and "whistle" ranges all having full participation of the folds with both ends closed, and each successive range of the three shortening the length of the freely vibrating folds from full length to a small (1/4 length?) portion, allowing for extremely high notes.
Figures I'd lose my mod points this morning. I looked at the article, and thought that the images were no different that a lot of high priced catalogs that seem to stuff our mailbox. I suppose my wife would be happy - seeing sharp angles for bones does not do it for me. If I wanted hard and angular, I'd climb into bed with a box of wrenches.
These are refurbs. And they're refurbs of an EOL'd tablet that they're not making any more of, and won't have spare parts to fix (since they're using all the spare parts to make as many as possible to reduce the bath they're taking by scrapping the product). Pretty questionable purchase, but for $100 maybe it's worth it.
My sister has two - one for each kid. The games they had seemed fun, and if they break it it's not like it's a $600 iPad.
Simple: for $20000, Medi-Jackass will offer to settle our of court, with both sides knowing full well that litigation will cost the doctor $100,000+. The doctor's insurance company will then inform him that if he screws up like that again, they will drop him, making him effectively unable to practice.
It will never get past (1), as congress will exempt itself from the law, like it does with nearly every other regulation, and go about in their blissfully unfettered world.
Actually, the lithium AAs are only about 1.75V at full charge. I put some in my Nikon F4s back in `1999 or 2000, and it still works fine on the same set.
When I was hired to run the IT department of a major company my predecessor left three letters in the desk that was now mine. Each letter was clearly labeled; System Failure #1, System Failure #2, System Failure #3. A post-it note was attached to the bundle of letters.
In case of a substantial system failure open the letters in order, once per failure, and they will help you through the problem.
I put the letters back in the desk and forgot about them.
About one year later we had a cascading server failure that left our corporate intranet and several important production servers off-line. While repairing the problem I remembered the letters. Curious, I opened the first letter.
Blame me, your predecessor
The day after we got the servers back up I was called in to my boss;s office to explain what happened and why were down for so long. Taking my cue from the letter I blamed my predecessor. My boss was satisfied with my answer and let me go.
About six months down the road we had another big failure. This time our primary database server went down and the secondary was having trouble dealing with the load. I had to put a lot of extra hours into getting them back up and we lost a few transactions due to the backup server not being able to function under the load.
Once again, I reached into that desk drawer and opened letter #2.
Blame the equipment
This time I lamented to the boss about how it wasn't my fault. It was that backup server! If we had some good equipment to run on these things just would not happen. He was satisfied with my answer and I went back to work.
Things ran smoothly for the next 18 months. Then we got hit with a virus that somehow got past our firewall and wreaked havoc on our systems.
I opened the third letter.
Write three letters
(Sorry, this was the first thing I thought of when I read the summary)
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You'd think so, but remember that these aren't being built by the "government" in a continuously operating design laboratory where the knowledge from all previous generations is leveraged to create the next great fighter jet. It was contracted out to not one, but three (four if you count the engines) different corporations, each with it's own expertise and history. While there was undoubtedly a great deal of aircraft design experience in the teams, the lack of long term mission continuity has been traded for apparent cost savings through a contractor workforce. The facilities for the contractors are, not surprisingly, not co-located, but are in Georgia, Texas, and Washington (state).
It's just you. It's been like this for at least 100 years, and very close to it for 200+. We've been through most of this foolishness before, and we'll do it again. It tends to happen in 50-80 year cycles, as that's about how long people live. Go read about the 1920s, and you'll see much of the same fiscal foolishness. We've actually gotten better at controlling it, but that just means we are ratcheting up the foolishness to the breaking point a bit slower.
It's entirely likely that without the great depression and the advent of the use of Keynesian economics, we would likely see 25%+ unemployment and massive governmental collapse. Instead, we've held steady in return for a huge debt. Unfortunately, it will really take us 10-20 years to dig ourselves out, but as soon as the collapse-panic is over, we expect to see progress/growth. All we've really done is started to set ourselves up for a second collapse where we don't have the ability to borrow our way out of a major correction.
I just hope I have the forethought to avoid losing my retirement savings when it happens.
You're missing a few zeros in your suggestion.
Buzzkill
Sledge hammers are cheaper, and far more satisfying when a disc full of data has just failed.
Though, to be fair, the comet had slightly more mass than his balled fist.
You'll have a better time arguing that doctors are not, in general, overpaid if you separate what people pay for services from what a physician makes. When I go to the hospital for a couple of days, I can expect to see a bill well into 5 figures. When you break it down, the doctor is probably only getting $80-$100/hr. Now, that's a lot of money when you figure that the average household income in the us is about $50k, or $25/hr for a single wage earner household. It's not when you can expect most licensed professionals (lawyers, engineers, accountants) to be in the $40-100/hr range. If you look at billing for those classes though, you'll find their rates tend to be $80-300/hr.
The bigger problem is that doctors tend to be arrogant sons-of-bitches. I can empathize - my engineering colleagues tend to be the same way. The more money they make, the more intense that characteristic seems to be.
Um, excess bandwidth charges?
It's all I can figure is the endgame here. I mean, I just sat in a presentation about the future of LTE going up to 1Gbps. On my plan, that means I could hit my limit and get charged another $15 in just a little under 2 seconds.
Nothing is perfect - the goal is to (a) reduce the chances that you are identified as a target and (b) increase the time and effort spent by the thief to clean you out. Smash and grab thieves generally don't break into "empty" cars.
I live in a small town. It doesn't eliminate theft, but it greatly reduces the incidence (which is all the other suggestions really do, short of storing your stuff in a body-mounted safe). I usually leave my truck unlocked, and the bed's cap is always unlocked unless I'm leaving for more than an hour. Of course, my stuff is insured, but it's pretty rare to have stuff stolen most areas around me.
I am planning to mount my iPad in an area that is visible, and I got a locking mount from RAM for that. The lock is very visible (I suspect it's mostly for deterrence). The weak link is that it's not too difficult to disassemble the mount arms by unscrewing so I might purchase a heavy cable to lock it to the base, though even that is easily foiled by bolt cutters.
Those with shovels meeting minimum earth moving criteria shall be stored in one of the following four types of containers, based on their classification see CFR [to be inserted at final hearing review]
Type I shovel enclosure: ....
Type II shovel enclosure: ...
Type III mass shovel storage....
Type IV field-use storage...
Hell, those drugs have their very own federal bureau.
Not really. They share it with Firearms and Explosives, and quite honestly they don't give a shit about tobacco, and only thing they really care about for Alcohol is that you're not stiffing the government out of it's tax stamps. They tend to be present for raids on drugs which are NOT regulated alcohol or tobacco.
Most of your points are refuted by the result of the 18th amendment, and it's ultimate repeal via the 21st, in the US. The mob flourished after prohibition was repealed because we gave them the opportunity to make huge margins and create vast networks for their business, and once alcohol was removed they just moved to other things, fully funded. It's taken decades to reduce the grip of national organized crime.
Although there is a black market for tobacco and alcohol in the US, it is relatively small. The goal of any regulation and tax scheme is to make it difficult and expensive to obtain the "sin" items, without making it so difficult or expensive that the black market can make a profit off of it.
People in the trade will not magically become good, but it would be nice to start reducing the participation of new drug runners in their illicit endeavors rather than encouraging it through the promise of easy wealth.
As for health care, stop covering those diseases, and make it public that smoking, alcohol, an drug related ailments will not be reimbursed by taxpayer funded health care.
Not as I understand it. Vocal Fry is opening the rear of the vocal folds so that they are no longer touching. It's one of 5 ways of making vocalization. Vocal fry and falsetto are the two odd-balls, with the "chest" "head" and "whistle" ranges all having full participation of the folds with both ends closed, and each successive range of the three shortening the length of the freely vibrating folds from full length to a small (1/4 length?) portion, allowing for extremely high notes.
Yup, just like most places, the highly placed jobs are based on who you know, not what you know. TFA actually says that he's well connected. QED.
Figures I'd lose my mod points this morning. I looked at the article, and thought that the images were no different that a lot of high priced catalogs that seem to stuff our mailbox. I suppose my wife would be happy - seeing sharp angles for bones does not do it for me. If I wanted hard and angular, I'd climb into bed with a box of wrenches.
These are refurbs. And they're refurbs of an EOL'd tablet that they're not making any more of, and won't have spare parts to fix (since they're using all the spare parts to make as many as possible to reduce the bath they're taking by scrapping the product). Pretty questionable purchase, but for $100 maybe it's worth it.
My sister has two - one for each kid. The games they had seemed fun, and if they break it it's not like it's a $600 iPad.
Yes. It's much the same as other IP in this instance - foreknowledge and intent are (mostly) irrelevant.
Simple: for $20000, Medi-Jackass will offer to settle our of court, with both sides knowing full well that litigation will cost the doctor $100,000+. The doctor's insurance company will then inform him that if he screws up like that again, they will drop him, making him effectively unable to practice.
See how easy that was?
It will never get past (1), as congress will exempt itself from the law, like it does with nearly every other regulation, and go about in their blissfully unfettered world.
Actually, the lithium AAs are only about 1.75V at full charge. I put some in my Nikon F4s back in `1999 or 2000, and it still works fine on the same set.
And that's why the popcorn and drinks are so damned expensive - because Hollywood gets practically ALL the money from the ticket sales.
Professional really just means you have insurance for when you screw up.
But that was not political speech. A fine hair to split, but a hair nonetheless.
When I was hired to run the IT department of a major company my predecessor left three letters in the desk that was now mine. Each letter was clearly labeled; System Failure #1, System Failure #2, System Failure #3. A post-it note was attached to the bundle of letters.
In case of a substantial system failure open the letters in order, once per failure, and they will help you through the problem.
I put the letters back in the desk and forgot about them.
About one year later we had a cascading server failure that left our corporate intranet and several important production servers off-line. While repairing the problem I remembered the letters. Curious, I opened the first letter.
Blame me, your predecessor
The day after we got the servers back up I was called in to my boss;s office to explain what happened and why were down for so long. Taking my cue from the letter I blamed my predecessor. My boss was satisfied with my answer and let me go.
About six months down the road we had another big failure. This time our primary database server went down and the secondary was having trouble dealing with the load. I had to put a lot of extra hours into getting them back up and we lost a few transactions due to the backup server not being able to function under the load.
Once again, I reached into that desk drawer and opened letter #2.
Blame the equipment
This time I lamented to the boss about how it wasn't my fault. It was that backup server! If we had some good equipment to run on these things just would not happen. He was satisfied with my answer and I went back to work.
Things ran smoothly for the next 18 months. Then we got hit with a virus that somehow got past our firewall and wreaked havoc on our systems.
I opened the third letter.
Write three letters
(Sorry, this was the first thing I thought of when I read the summary)