This isn't a cost saving measure. It's not even about what the cost is to run these things.
The government is shut down because the congress has not passed a budget which allows the government to operate. The reason for this impasse has nothing to do with the cost of running the government, only a specific law which a minority of the House of Representatives finds objectionable. I know it's a minority because they have voted 40 times to reverse the law and have not yet obtained a majority vote. They have decided that the only way to enforce their will is o attempt to block operation of the country until they get their way, not unlike a child throwing a tantrum and sitting on the floor, unwilling to move. It has nothing to do with cost or savings.
The government has ceased operation, and IT assets and physical locations have been placed into any unattended/closed status.
Did you know that every "day use area" in the NPS is "closed" at night, even though there aren't barricades or armed guards from sundown to sunup? You're not allowed to be there, for your safety, for the safety of the park, for the preservation of assets.
Think of it like this: when an amusement park "closes" they lock the gates and bar you from even parking in their parking lots. They still have bare bones staff, but they are closed. They don't let you walk around the park when it's closed, even if you don't plan on riding the rides or playing with the stuff there. They are Closed.
The same thing has happened with the federal government. Quit bitching and tell your congressman to re-open the country's assets and fight their grievances on their own merits.
For each pupil you've got $10,000 to service capital debt, maintain facilities, procure and maintain learning tools and resources, provide transportation, and hire educators and management. Direct contact with the instructor shall not be less than 1000 hours per year.
Go - tell me how you create and implement a personalized learning plan and provide full-time, tailored individual instruction for every student. You've got almost $10/hour to do it, I'm sure you can make it work.
$30k? Pshaw, that's nothing. You can blow that in a month-long summer camp that characterizes your kids individual learning traits and tailors a specific program for each type of learning they do. Heck, that's barely 120 hours of evaluation by a top professional - you'll probably get an assistant for most of the time at a lower rate, and then conference with the behavioral and learning expert maybe an hour a day to make sure progress is being made. Add in the facility charges, activity and learning material fees, final report and conference fees and $30k seems like it would barely cover it.
Personally, I wouldn't wish mortal harm on another sentient being.
Have you been following the news? I'm pretty sure that just about everyone in congress falls quite a bit short of "sentient." You needn't worry that anything or anyone of redeeming value be harmed should we lose a few hundred elected officials - I assure you they would not be missed.
FBI would have been happy with this condition - all they wanted was the metadata (headers) showing who this one guy was sending emails to or receiving them from. They never asked for the actual data.
By filing a suit, you have raised the stakes and any resolution should be public.
There are only two conditions where the settlement would want to be private - the defendant knows they screwed up and want to cover up any future liability or embarrassment, or the plaintiff was over aggressive and filed a questionable suit to force an issue with the defendant and wants to save face. Fuck that.
If you file a suit it has the MEAN something. Using it in any other way makes it easy to back down, undermining the system and either letting real crooks off the hook or giving bullies another tool to badger their opponents.
Summary executions of anyone *suspected* of keeping a corporate secret. We can sell licenses like we do for deer or elk during hunting season. Give 'em a name and a tag and make sure they register the body with the local game warden when they finish.
Guns, meaningless killing, and anti-corporatism - It's the perfect left-right-libertarian utopia
The linear idea is good for comparison side by side, but if you have a tootsie roll which is 5" long and one that is 6" long, which one is a whole tootsie roll, which one is 5/6 of a tootsie roll, and which one is 6/5 of a tootsie roll. Even if you show the individual pieces, you can't tell. With a pie, there's never any question as to whether you have more or less than a whole pie.
First we get the ultrasaturated green in iOS7, and now blinking squares of ultrasaturated red to obfuscate what would otherwise be fully detailed in a table.
There's a reason that everyone hated the blink tag and MySpace. It appears the design philosphy is, however, alive and well in marketing.
People don't care because most of them have already given all of this info to Facebook, Google, Visa/MC, and their local Grocery store, who have not just mapped all of your connections, but are selling them for fun and profit.
Actually, I believe MOST people have a sun-independent rhythm of 24.5-27 hours. When placed in isolation from normal sunrise/sunset, nearly everyone drifts to a longer wake cycle resulting in an extended "day". I can't remember the specific paper I read.
Not too expensive so that everyone in the first world can afford it, and bulk-cheap enough that every first world government will help every third world country pay for it for their citizens.
They sell bikes at Burning Man for $200? Or perhaps you meant to buy the bike at home and pay several hundred dollars to ship it as close as you could get to burning man and then rent a car to go pick it up and drive it to Burning Man. Or maybe you just like the idea of a thousand mile ride to Burning Man on a sub-$200 bike with all your gear strapped to your back.
He sounds more like someone with a job than an iPhone (though, to be honest, you do need a job to afford an iPhone so maybe you're onto something). Those of us with jobs in the "real world" appreciate that sometimes time is money, and with the limited time we have we'd rather not spend it all on logistics when someone else offers it already done. If you bill $100-$300/hr (or more), spending $1000 to get as much as possible out of a once-a-year event doesn't really seem that excessive.
Well, some lucky kid *didn't* lock the android phone that fell out of his pocket while rip-roaring drunk, so that when I picked it up off the side of the road I could get in and send him an email that I'd found it. Sure, I could have just popped the SIM and sent it back to Verizon, but it would have taken weeks or days, not 2 hours, for the guy to get his phone back.
I don't PIN lock my phone because I'm lazy, I do it so my family can use my phone easily. I definitely wouldn't use the fingerprint recognition if I had it.
This is a way to crowd out a gaggle of perfectly-good $2 cables in favor of their $20 cables. Personally, I don't like to have to take my cable with my everywhere I go, and I don't want to worry about damaging or losing said, sole cable. I have a charger on my nightstand, one fished in behind the dashboard in my car (so I can use the GPS software, which would otherwise render the battery dead in short order), and one on my desk at work, plus one in my travel bag.
Apple is really pushing to get me onto Android when I'm due for an update next summer.
tl;dr - We don't have funds for things that won't gain votes in an election.
Completely OT: I would LOVE to see the Tea Party gets its way on the budget for the next two years, cutting 100% out of welfare and healthcare, abolishing nearly every executive branch department (including intelligence), and recalling all servicemen home from foreign bases and then discharging them. I'm not certain they realize just how absolutely integral the government is to our society.
They've been making this argument for decades. I counter with:
1) Prime time reality TV proves that people will support putting bags of meat in awkward and dangerous situations for our entertainment. 2) Any 5 year old will tell you that Astronaut is still one of the coolest jobs on the planet. 3) Employing robots and exploring with efficient manpower on earth does not play well with the 99% who just want more jobs in their congressional district.
The people in 1, 2, and 3, above would much rather see humans in space than actually learn more about space. And, coincidentally, those are also the people paying for the space program.
The one that doesn't actually exist (there is no RF scanner), or the theoretical RF scanner which can't tell the difference between a finger and a small tube of ketchup (or other mostly-water filled tube)?
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This isn't a cost saving measure. It's not even about what the cost is to run these things.
The government is shut down because the congress has not passed a budget which allows the government to operate. The reason for this impasse has nothing to do with the cost of running the government, only a specific law which a minority of the House of Representatives finds objectionable. I know it's a minority because they have voted 40 times to reverse the law and have not yet obtained a majority vote. They have decided that the only way to enforce their will is o attempt to block operation of the country until they get their way, not unlike a child throwing a tantrum and sitting on the floor, unwilling to move. It has nothing to do with cost or savings.
The government has ceased operation, and IT assets and physical locations have been placed into any unattended/closed status.
Did you know that every "day use area" in the NPS is "closed" at night, even though there aren't barricades or armed guards from sundown to sunup? You're not allowed to be there, for your safety, for the safety of the park, for the preservation of assets.
Think of it like this: when an amusement park "closes" they lock the gates and bar you from even parking in their parking lots. They still have bare bones staff, but they are closed. They don't let you walk around the park when it's closed, even if you don't plan on riding the rides or playing with the stuff there. They are Closed.
The same thing has happened with the federal government. Quit bitching and tell your congressman to re-open the country's assets and fight their grievances on their own merits.
For each pupil you've got $10,000 to service capital debt, maintain facilities, procure and maintain learning tools and resources, provide transportation, and hire educators and management. Direct contact with the instructor shall not be less than 1000 hours per year.
Go - tell me how you create and implement a personalized learning plan and provide full-time, tailored individual instruction for every student. You've got almost $10/hour to do it, I'm sure you can make it work.
$30k? Pshaw, that's nothing. You can blow that in a month-long summer camp that characterizes your kids individual learning traits and tailors a specific program for each type of learning they do. Heck, that's barely 120 hours of evaluation by a top professional - you'll probably get an assistant for most of the time at a lower rate, and then conference with the behavioral and learning expert maybe an hour a day to make sure progress is being made. Add in the facility charges, activity and learning material fees, final report and conference fees and $30k seems like it would barely cover it.
Personally, I wouldn't wish mortal harm on another sentient being.
Have you been following the news? I'm pretty sure that just about everyone in congress falls quite a bit short of "sentient." You needn't worry that anything or anyone of redeeming value be harmed should we lose a few hundred elected officials - I assure you they would not be missed.
FBI would have been happy with this condition - all they wanted was the metadata (headers) showing who this one guy was sending emails to or receiving them from. They never asked for the actual data.
By filing a suit, you have raised the stakes and any resolution should be public.
There are only two conditions where the settlement would want to be private - the defendant knows they screwed up and want to cover up any future liability or embarrassment, or the plaintiff was over aggressive and filed a questionable suit to force an issue with the defendant and wants to save face. Fuck that.
If you file a suit it has the MEAN something. Using it in any other way makes it easy to back down, undermining the system and either letting real crooks off the hook or giving bullies another tool to badger their opponents.
Summary executions of anyone *suspected* of keeping a corporate secret. We can sell licenses like we do for deer or elk during hunting season. Give 'em a name and a tag and make sure they register the body with the local game warden when they finish.
Guns, meaningless killing, and anti-corporatism - It's the perfect left-right-libertarian utopia
Diesel burns FUCKING GREAT. In fact, it burns so well it's what is used to heat your home (presuming you have oil heat). But it doesn't explode well.
The linear idea is good for comparison side by side, but if you have a tootsie roll which is 5" long and one that is 6" long, which one is a whole tootsie roll, which one is 5/6 of a tootsie roll, and which one is 6/5 of a tootsie roll. Even if you show the individual pieces, you can't tell. With a pie, there's never any question as to whether you have more or less than a whole pie.
Non-essential doesn't mean what you think it means.
First we get the ultrasaturated green in iOS7, and now blinking squares of ultrasaturated red to obfuscate what would otherwise be fully detailed in a table.
There's a reason that everyone hated the blink tag and MySpace. It appears the design philosphy is, however, alive and well in marketing.
For those who would prefer not to burn their eyes out: http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/2013/top-100-list-view.aspx
People don't care because most of them have already given all of this info to Facebook, Google, Visa/MC, and their local Grocery store, who have not just mapped all of your connections, but are selling them for fun and profit.
Actually, I believe MOST people have a sun-independent rhythm of 24.5-27 hours. When placed in isolation from normal sunrise/sunset, nearly everyone drifts to a longer wake cycle resulting in an extended "day". I can't remember the specific paper I read.
Not too expensive so that everyone in the first world can afford it, and bulk-cheap enough that every first world government will help every third world country pay for it for their citizens.
Mmmm, mmmm, I love me some of that General's Fried Chicken!
Fire everyone, chop it up into marketable parts, sell the hard assets for cash, license the IP through a troll. It's the MBA way.
They sell bikes at Burning Man for $200? Or perhaps you meant to buy the bike at home and pay several hundred dollars to ship it as close as you could get to burning man and then rent a car to go pick it up and drive it to Burning Man. Or maybe you just like the idea of a thousand mile ride to Burning Man on a sub-$200 bike with all your gear strapped to your back.
He sounds more like someone with a job than an iPhone (though, to be honest, you do need a job to afford an iPhone so maybe you're onto something). Those of us with jobs in the "real world" appreciate that sometimes time is money, and with the limited time we have we'd rather not spend it all on logistics when someone else offers it already done. If you bill $100-$300/hr (or more), spending $1000 to get as much as possible out of a once-a-year event doesn't really seem that excessive.
Well, some lucky kid *didn't* lock the android phone that fell out of his pocket while rip-roaring drunk, so that when I picked it up off the side of the road I could get in and send him an email that I'd found it. Sure, I could have just popped the SIM and sent it back to Verizon, but it would have taken weeks or days, not 2 hours, for the guy to get his phone back.
I don't PIN lock my phone because I'm lazy, I do it so my family can use my phone easily. I definitely wouldn't use the fingerprint recognition if I had it.
This is a way to crowd out a gaggle of perfectly-good $2 cables in favor of their $20 cables. Personally, I don't like to have to take my cable with my everywhere I go, and I don't want to worry about damaging or losing said, sole cable. I have a charger on my nightstand, one fished in behind the dashboard in my car (so I can use the GPS software, which would otherwise render the battery dead in short order), and one on my desk at work, plus one in my travel bag.
Apple is really pushing to get me onto Android when I'm due for an update next summer.
What if it was like the one Tony Stark wears?
tl;dr - We don't have funds for things that won't gain votes in an election.
Completely OT: I would LOVE to see the Tea Party gets its way on the budget for the next two years, cutting 100% out of welfare and healthcare, abolishing nearly every executive branch department (including intelligence), and recalling all servicemen home from foreign bases and then discharging them. I'm not certain they realize just how absolutely integral the government is to our society.
They've been making this argument for decades. I counter with:
1) Prime time reality TV proves that people will support putting bags of meat in awkward and dangerous situations for our entertainment.
2) Any 5 year old will tell you that Astronaut is still one of the coolest jobs on the planet.
3) Employing robots and exploring with efficient manpower on earth does not play well with the 99% who just want more jobs in their congressional district.
The people in 1, 2, and 3, above would much rather see humans in space than actually learn more about space. And, coincidentally, those are also the people paying for the space program.
The one that doesn't actually exist (there is no RF scanner), or the theoretical RF scanner which can't tell the difference between a finger and a small tube of ketchup (or other mostly-water filled tube)?
Ignoring all the challenges of creating an parabolic shape a mile across, have you seen what the sun looks like from Voyager 1?