Right now it's being paid for by the state, via taxes. If the state stops paying, and the electric company has to dump the excess electricity (can't sell it to other countries/regions for whatever reason), it will be paid for by other electricity consumers. Is there really a huge difference in charging taxpayers vs charging people who use electricity?
A lot of ~really~ smart guys know that life is what you make of it. There are plenty of ~really~ smart guys who would gladly take a 5% chance of dying to experience something they've dreamed of since childhood, and that only a ridiculously small number of humans ever get to do.
People are fickle and irrational. If any of my relatives (on one specific side of the family...) got a 2am call from a political party they were going to vote for, I'm pretty sure they would either change their vote or not vote at all. And any who didn't would surely believe the moved voting booth story and probably get frustrated and go home when they couldn't find it.
The funny (sad) thing is that Hitler seems to have set the bar for what actually qualifies as a bad leader. That is, until a politician literally starts an ethnic cleansing program, most people can't really see anything wrong. And the scary thing is that if you change 'jew' to 'muslim' there are plenty of people today who probably wouldn't even see the similarity and would happily vote for Hitler 2.0.
I find that even simple things like "meet me at the bar at 6" often require several back-and-forth follow-up messages. I'd much rather bump into someone in the hall on the way to the bathroom and spend 10-15 seconds talking.
You might be right in regards to purely communicating data, but for actual -work- and general communication, voice will always be king, regardless of how 'multi-cultural' things get.
When two people talk, unless one of them is autistic, they convey far more information with their voice than just words. Additionally, I don't know many people who type faster than they talk. In fact, I don't know anyone who legitimately types faster than they talk, and I mostly know people who have been typing for over two decades.
With text, it's harder to bounce ideas around and brainstorm. Unless you're using a real-time protocol, you can't intentionally interrupt people when they're going down the wrong path or you already know what they're going to say.
I don't care what other people use, I just care what vendors are selling. There is no way in hell I'm ever paying money for an mp3. I've purchased flac albums several times, however.
Ever since Bill Gates got involved in philanthropy, I've believed he should only focus on "big issues" like this one. He (or rather, his money + Warrent Buffet's money) is the only one with the clout and money to pull something revolutionary like this off. Unfortunately, he's too busy putting band-aids on a leaky dam just like everyone else.
If the other vehicle is roughly the same weight and size as your vehicle, a 30mph head-on collision would be roughly equivalent to hitting that telephone pole, not worse as you might think.
If you're telling the truth, thank you for being a thoughtful person is capable of changing even strongly held opinions. That's extremely rare to see, and even if it took you a few years, at least it happened.
It's a good reminder for everyone that ignoring/insulting/discounting the "other side" is not the right choice, because it is possible for people to change.
Can you point out some ways in which he is different from the typical Republican? I keep hearing that, but I haven't seen much evidence of it. He's anti-regulation/pro-big-business, anti-abortion, and hides behind "state's rights" as an excuse to roll civil rights back a couple hundred years.
Open source solutions don't exist for everything. In fact, even the solutions that do exist are often lacking in certain features that make them useless to many users.
There are a lot of comments bashing the $10k price tag, but there are a lot of specialty applications that are only needed by a very small group of users. If your maximum entire market consists of maybe a thousand businesses around the world, lowering your price isn't going to do anything except put you out of business.
I've never understood that, if someone can explain it to me. Are there actually people who "store" things on their Facebook account? How? Do you upload photos and then delete them locally?
Maybe they're rare around you, but when I go out driving for an hour or two, I encounter about 10 roundabouts and pass through maybe 30 street lights and a few dozen 2- or 4-way stop signs. I wouldn't consider anything "rare" just for not being the most numerous.
Do you have any examples of street signage that use only red/green color to make distinctions? Over 7% of the population either have trouble with red/green or perceive them differently than others, at least according to Wikipedia. Traffic lights make use of position as well as color. Walk/go lights generally use color, position, and/or different icons to represent the permitted action.
I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me:P
What you say is true though. Look at Christianity 2000 years ago and all of the reformations it has gone through to get where it is today. Just 100 years ago, interracial marriage was a sin for many sects. Religion always tends to be a reflection on society... it was created by people, after all.
The process (not the logic) is circular, in that while a religion greatly influences its society, shifts in society can also feed back into the religion and modify it.
I agree with you that the original post was pretty crazy and wrong, but I have to argue with yours a bit. Most people don't earn a living from doing a hobby they enjoy, nor do they deserve to.
Do things because you enjoy them, not because you plan to get rich from it. If you enjoy sharing those hobbies with the world, then no, you are covering the costs yourself for your own enjoyment. $10/month for hosting is a pretty cheap hobby.
To answer your question, yes. It's hard to even enter Saudi Arabia if you don't have a valid reason. While you would PROBABLY be ok tweeting something like that and then visiting, simply because of signal-to-noise ratio making them unaware you even posted it, I wouldn't recommend going. In fact, the post you just made even as a question would be enough to get you arrested and deported, if not killed. You never know if they have systems like the USA that are constantly scanning the internet for comments and indexing them for later use.
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Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services and then to Academi. It's important not to let them get away with something as stupid as a name change.
Right now it's being paid for by the state, via taxes. If the state stops paying, and the electric company has to dump the excess electricity (can't sell it to other countries/regions for whatever reason), it will be paid for by other electricity consumers. Is there really a huge difference in charging taxpayers vs charging people who use electricity?
Or, "I got mine"
A lot of ~really~ smart guys know that life is what you make of it. There are plenty of ~really~ smart guys who would gladly take a 5% chance of dying to experience something they've dreamed of since childhood, and that only a ridiculously small number of humans ever get to do.
People are fickle and irrational. If any of my relatives (on one specific side of the family...) got a 2am call from a political party they were going to vote for, I'm pretty sure they would either change their vote or not vote at all. And any who didn't would surely believe the moved voting booth story and probably get frustrated and go home when they couldn't find it.
The funny (sad) thing is that Hitler seems to have set the bar for what actually qualifies as a bad leader. That is, until a politician literally starts an ethnic cleansing program, most people can't really see anything wrong. And the scary thing is that if you change 'jew' to 'muslim' there are plenty of people today who probably wouldn't even see the similarity and would happily vote for Hitler 2.0.
How does one party doing despicable things make it seem like more of the world population wants libertarian moderate leaders?
I find that even simple things like "meet me at the bar at 6" often require several back-and-forth follow-up messages. I'd much rather bump into someone in the hall on the way to the bathroom and spend 10-15 seconds talking.
You might be right in regards to purely communicating data, but for actual -work- and general communication, voice will always be king, regardless of how 'multi-cultural' things get.
When two people talk, unless one of them is autistic, they convey far more information with their voice than just words. Additionally, I don't know many people who type faster than they talk. In fact, I don't know anyone who legitimately types faster than they talk, and I mostly know people who have been typing for over two decades.
With text, it's harder to bounce ideas around and brainstorm. Unless you're using a real-time protocol, you can't intentionally interrupt people when they're going down the wrong path or you already know what they're going to say.
I don't care what other people use, I just care what vendors are selling. There is no way in hell I'm ever paying money for an mp3. I've purchased flac albums several times, however.
And yet they still reap billions and billions a year in profits...
Read through the comments on that article and you'll find several issues with its logic.
Ever since Bill Gates got involved in philanthropy, I've believed he should only focus on "big issues" like this one. He (or rather, his money + Warrent Buffet's money) is the only one with the clout and money to pull something revolutionary like this off. Unfortunately, he's too busy putting band-aids on a leaky dam just like everyone else.
If the other vehicle is roughly the same weight and size as your vehicle, a 30mph head-on collision would be roughly equivalent to hitting that telephone pole, not worse as you might think.
If you're telling the truth, thank you for being a thoughtful person is capable of changing even strongly held opinions. That's extremely rare to see, and even if it took you a few years, at least it happened.
It's a good reminder for everyone that ignoring/insulting/discounting the "other side" is not the right choice, because it is possible for people to change.
Can you point out some ways in which he is different from the typical Republican? I keep hearing that, but I haven't seen much evidence of it. He's anti-regulation/pro-big-business, anti-abortion, and hides behind "state's rights" as an excuse to roll civil rights back a couple hundred years.
No, see, you don't get it. Those things are popular, therefore they aren't funny. Being popular is absolute proof that something is stupid.
Open source solutions don't exist for everything. In fact, even the solutions that do exist are often lacking in certain features that make them useless to many users.
There are a lot of comments bashing the $10k price tag, but there are a lot of specialty applications that are only needed by a very small group of users. If your maximum entire market consists of maybe a thousand businesses around the world, lowering your price isn't going to do anything except put you out of business.
I've never understood that, if someone can explain it to me. Are there actually people who "store" things on their Facebook account? How? Do you upload photos and then delete them locally?
Maybe they're rare around you, but when I go out driving for an hour or two, I encounter about 10 roundabouts and pass through maybe 30 street lights and a few dozen 2- or 4-way stop signs. I wouldn't consider anything "rare" just for not being the most numerous.
Yeah, fuck him for not wanting to die. Wait, what?
Do you have any examples of street signage that use only red/green color to make distinctions? Over 7% of the population either have trouble with red/green or perceive them differently than others, at least according to Wikipedia. Traffic lights make use of position as well as color. Walk/go lights generally use color, position, and/or different icons to represent the permitted action.
I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me :P
What you say is true though. Look at Christianity 2000 years ago and all of the reformations it has gone through to get where it is today. Just 100 years ago, interracial marriage was a sin for many sects. Religion always tends to be a reflection on society... it was created by people, after all.
The process (not the logic) is circular, in that while a religion greatly influences its society, shifts in society can also feed back into the religion and modify it.
I agree with you that the original post was pretty crazy and wrong, but I have to argue with yours a bit. Most people don't earn a living from doing a hobby they enjoy, nor do they deserve to.
Do things because you enjoy them, not because you plan to get rich from it. If you enjoy sharing those hobbies with the world, then no, you are covering the costs yourself for your own enjoyment. $10/month for hosting is a pretty cheap hobby.
Not "no porn", I'm talking about the middle finger incident.
To answer your question, yes. It's hard to even enter Saudi Arabia if you don't have a valid reason. While you would PROBABLY be ok tweeting something like that and then visiting, simply because of signal-to-noise ratio making them unaware you even posted it, I wouldn't recommend going. In fact, the post you just made even as a question would be enough to get you arrested and deported, if not killed. You never know if they have systems like the USA that are constantly scanning the internet for comments and indexing them for later use.