I think the problem people have in comprehending this is that people assume that taxiing planes are like any other wheeled vehicle: the forward motion is caused by force of the wheel on the ground. Since planes use the engines to move forward, the ground doesn't really matter.
If you want a car analogy, you could build a "treadmill" that sits under the car wheels and spins with the wheel so the car can "drive" while going nowhere (they exist, you'll see them in plenty of mechanics' shops) but if you hooked the car up to a tow truck and pulled it, it'd roll right off the treadmill because its forward motion won't have anything to do with the action of the wheels on the ground.
And a few years before that, they did the same thing to pass the Paul Wellstone Memorial Bank Bailout Bill. It's not something that's just a "one off" "it was an emergency" thing, it's becoming a regular occurrence and needs to be put down.
It doesn't apply to very tall people, it doesn't apply to very short people, it doesn't apply to people with large tumorous growths, it doesn't apply to...
By the time the exclusions are set up, it'd be easier to just throw the guy in water and see how well he floats, which is a perfectly acceptable way of finding out how much of his body is fat instead of trying to divine it magically from his height.
Who the heck basically gives someone the right to tell another adult, "Your choices and goals are wrong. I know better than you what you should want. Lemme just shove my choices down your throat, for your own good."?
And as some kind of strange kickback to the democrats, for the first time ever, my job would not tell anyone what the new rates were until the middle of November
They (the insurance company) was hoping that the Republicans would win in a large enough landslide that they'd repeal everything right away and they could go back to jacking up everyone's rates 125% for no reason at all.
Since I started offering insurance at my company 10 years ago, it's been the same story every year. I don't know why Republicans have such short memories that they can't remember that their rates get jacked up year after year after year. We now pay almost 4 times as much as our original plan, and we've gone from a $500 deductible (paid 90% by the company) to $7000 (paid 50% by the company, plus a promise from the company to pay the $2000 deductible difference from last year if someone needs it, since increasing the deductible from $5000 to $7000 this year made the increase over last year only a few dollars per policy (over the year) instead of several hundred, so we're taking the risk that only one or two people will have a problem. We've had years where remaining on the same plan would have cost us twice as much the second year. We've even ended up changing insurance companies four times over the decade to chase policies that are actually affordable.
This year my job added a "discount" if you are not a smoker or are in a smoking cessation program
This is what insurance is supposed to do: measure risk and insure against that risk, with some risks being more expensive than others. Too bad the risk of needing healthcare by the time you die is 100%.
Of course, that's the dirty little secret here: since everyone gets insured through their company, if they can keep you alive and healthy long enough to be fired/quit/retire, you become someone else's risk. So keep off the smokes and stay fit! That way, when it's time for you to need serious healthcare, you'll be Medicare's problem.
Theoretical boy fight, when affected by MMOs: "I'm bigger, stronger, and faster than this little kid and therefore I'm allowed to beat on him without consequences." Wait, that sounds about right for bullies doesn't it?
By your logic, nobody would shoot clay pigeons when there are a few million of the winged rats that everyone would be glad to be rid of.
Yet people play all sorts of violent games and sports against inanimate objects. Perhaps "the pleasure in killing that which has no life" does not come from pretending that it is alive.
Reminds me of the news story from a couple days ago. Parents dropped their kid off at school and told him to go beat up another kid. Some 73-year-old crossing guard tried to stop the kid so the parents allegedly slugged him a couple times to show their kid how it's done. With parents like this, who needs video games?
then your "solution" will be to suggest the use of a private key, which is nothing more than a lengthy password that's often stored in a file that can be easily stolen.
Except that if someone steals the USB dongle on my keychain, I'm likely to notice.
Sure, it's possible that there's malware on the computer copying all of my keys as I speak, but the same could be said for the keylogger copying all my passwords, so its pretty easy to establish that public/private keypairs are more secure than just plain passwords, given that they are significantly harder to brute force, for any reasonable protocol the key is never sent over the wire (the server asks the client to encrypt something in order to prove that it possesses the private key matching the public key), and they can provide for positive identification of both sides of the connection (given that the server has its own private key).
you are forced into unions if you want to work at certain jobs/industries
The irony here is that if a liberal ever uttered a sentence implying that something should be done because you are forced to X if you want Y the conservatives would swarm them insisting that they have no right to getting Y on their own terms.
Want to be a teacher? Hope you like unions
Unless you can cut it, then you can be a private school teacher. Of course, the pay's usually even crappier than the public ones, but at least you get to teach the good kids instead of the dropouts that are only there that day because the truant officer caught them. That seems to be why the competition is generally pretty fierce.
I did an internship for a summer at an car manufacturing plant, and they forced me to join their stupid union.
Unions definitely have gathered too much power, especially ones where the government has given them the power to force everyone to join (or to let them garnish the wages of non-members *). But if the union gets the company to sign a contract making it a union shop, well, "them's the breaks". (Personally, I'm not a fan of "third party" contracts where A dictates to B how B must deal with C when C gets no input in this arrangement, but pretty much everything is driven by them these days.)
*: no, non-members shouldn't get the union benefits "for free", they should have to negotiate on their own and take the benefits they can get.
Anyone on the web can potentially see that you’ve +1’d content
means that people can see your +1 or whether people can see whether you gave that +1. It's the difference between "+22" and "kipsate liked this article on the KKK". Based on the mockup screenshots and the
When you create a profile, it's visible to anyone and connections with your email address can easily find it.
someone else found, it's pretty clear that I'll be able to see exactly what pages you specifically +1'd.
Personally, though, April 1st started sweeping across the planet a few hours ago...
A politician has no hire-and-fire control over staff outside of politics, even if they have that power at all (which I wouldn't think they do).
Oh no, of course not, he could never fire you. Of course, it would be a shame if the department's budget was cut to $10. Of course, the politician would probably want to run that by your boss and get his input on the matter, to make sure the right cuts were being made.
You get your car wrecked and your insurance company pays to fix it, you go on. You get your house burned down and your insurance company pays to fix it, you go on. Your employee falls down on the job and your insurance company pays to fix it, you go on. A customer falls down and your insurance company pays to fix it, you go on. You die and your insurance company pays to bury you, your kids go on.
You get cancer and your insurance company pays and pays and pays and pays and...
Sure, the model might work for something simple like a broken leg, but we have too many incurable chronic diseases that are expensive to treat, and to the chagrin of the moral police, not all of them are the fault of the sufferer.
It depends on what exactly they mean by "taught". Can he prove the chain rule? L'Hospital? Or has he simply memorized the equations and learned to make use of them? The latter I could see being done in days if you've got that kind of memory.
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I think the problem people have in comprehending this is that people assume that taxiing planes are like any other wheeled vehicle: the forward motion is caused by force of the wheel on the ground. Since planes use the engines to move forward, the ground doesn't really matter.
If you want a car analogy, you could build a "treadmill" that sits under the car wheels and spins with the wheel so the car can "drive" while going nowhere (they exist, you'll see them in plenty of mechanics' shops) but if you hooked the car up to a tow truck and pulled it, it'd roll right off the treadmill because its forward motion won't have anything to do with the action of the wheels on the ground.
Factually, history completely disagrees with you
And factually, present day completely disagrees with history. How's our roaring war economy doing now?
And a few years before that, they did the same thing to pass the Paul Wellstone Memorial Bank Bailout Bill. It's not something that's just a "one off" "it was an emergency" thing, it's becoming a regular occurrence and needs to be put down.
It doesn't apply to very tall people, it doesn't apply to very short people, it doesn't apply to people with large tumorous growths, it doesn't apply to...
By the time the exclusions are set up, it'd be easier to just throw the guy in water and see how well he floats, which is a perfectly acceptable way of finding out how much of his body is fat instead of trying to divine it magically from his height.
Who the heck basically gives someone the right to tell another adult, "Your choices and goals are wrong. I know better than you what you should want. Lemme just shove my choices down your throat, for your own good."?
Republicans. To be fair, the Democrats too.
And as some kind of strange kickback to the democrats, for the first time ever, my job would not tell anyone what the new rates were until the middle of November
They (the insurance company) was hoping that the Republicans would win in a large enough landslide that they'd repeal everything right away and they could go back to jacking up everyone's rates 125% for no reason at all.
Since I started offering insurance at my company 10 years ago, it's been the same story every year. I don't know why Republicans have such short memories that they can't remember that their rates get jacked up year after year after year. We now pay almost 4 times as much as our original plan, and we've gone from a $500 deductible (paid 90% by the company) to $7000 (paid 50% by the company, plus a promise from the company to pay the $2000 deductible difference from last year if someone needs it, since increasing the deductible from $5000 to $7000 this year made the increase over last year only a few dollars per policy (over the year) instead of several hundred, so we're taking the risk that only one or two people will have a problem. We've had years where remaining on the same plan would have cost us twice as much the second year. We've even ended up changing insurance companies four times over the decade to chase policies that are actually affordable.
This year my job added a "discount" if you are not a smoker or are in a smoking cessation program
This is what insurance is supposed to do: measure risk and insure against that risk, with some risks being more expensive than others. Too bad the risk of needing healthcare by the time you die is 100%.
Of course, that's the dirty little secret here: since everyone gets insured through their company, if they can keep you alive and healthy long enough to be fired/quit/retire, you become someone else's risk. So keep off the smokes and stay fit! That way, when it's time for you to need serious healthcare, you'll be Medicare's problem.
Theoretical boy fight, when affected by MMOs: "I'm bigger, stronger, and faster than this little kid and therefore I'm allowed to beat on him without consequences." Wait, that sounds about right for bullies doesn't it?
So bullies didn't think that way before MMOs?
By your logic, nobody would shoot clay pigeons when there are a few million of the winged rats that everyone would be glad to be rid of.
Yet people play all sorts of violent games and sports against inanimate objects. Perhaps "the pleasure in killing that which has no life" does not come from pretending that it is alive.
Reminds me of the news story from a couple days ago. Parents dropped their kid off at school and told him to go beat up another kid. Some 73-year-old crossing guard tried to stop the kid so the parents allegedly slugged him a couple times to show their kid how it's done. With parents like this, who needs video games?
then your "solution" will be to suggest the use of a private key, which is nothing more than a lengthy password that's often stored in a file that can be easily stolen.
Except that if someone steals the USB dongle on my keychain, I'm likely to notice.
Sure, it's possible that there's malware on the computer copying all of my keys as I speak, but the same could be said for the keylogger copying all my passwords, so its pretty easy to establish that public/private keypairs are more secure than just plain passwords, given that they are significantly harder to brute force, for any reasonable protocol the key is never sent over the wire (the server asks the client to encrypt something in order to prove that it possesses the private key matching the public key), and they can provide for positive identification of both sides of the connection (given that the server has its own private key).
Everyone who didn't get the achievement last time?
you are forced into unions if you want to work at certain jobs/industries
The irony here is that if a liberal ever uttered a sentence implying that something should be done because you are forced to X if you want Y the conservatives would swarm them insisting that they have no right to getting Y on their own terms.
Want to be a teacher? Hope you like unions
Unless you can cut it, then you can be a private school teacher. Of course, the pay's usually even crappier than the public ones, but at least you get to teach the good kids instead of the dropouts that are only there that day because the truant officer caught them. That seems to be why the competition is generally pretty fierce.
I did an internship for a summer at an car manufacturing plant, and they forced me to join their stupid union.
Unions definitely have gathered too much power, especially ones where the government has given them the power to force everyone to join (or to let them garnish the wages of non-members *). But if the union gets the company to sign a contract making it a union shop, well, "them's the breaks". (Personally, I'm not a fan of "third party" contracts where A dictates to B how B must deal with C when C gets no input in this arrangement, but pretty much everything is driven by them these days.)
*: no, non-members shouldn't get the union benefits "for free", they should have to negotiate on their own and take the benefits they can get.
Everyone else seems to be arguing over whether
Anyone on the web can potentially see that you’ve +1’d content
means that people can see your +1 or whether people can see whether you gave that +1. It's the difference between "+22" and "kipsate liked this article on the KKK". Based on the mockup screenshots and the
When you create a profile, it's visible to anyone and connections with your email address can easily find it.
someone else found, it's pretty clear that I'll be able to see exactly what pages you specifically +1'd.
Personally, though, April 1st started sweeping across the planet a few hours ago...
Unions are corporations too, they just choose to buy different products.
Come up with some original shit of your own and stop copying other people's crap.
"Necessity is the mother of invention".
The funny thing is that this mother tends to breed quintuplets. Given Problem X and Tool Y, most people will come up with the same Solution Z.
Well be careful, because depending on what all those words mean
Do you know how you find out what those words mean? You get sued and at the Markman Hearing the judge decides what those words mean.
they're both sources of calories
Burning plastic will raise the temperature of water somewhat, therefore plastic is a source of calories too.
Clearly not all calories are created equal.
A politician has no hire-and-fire control over staff outside of politics, even if they have that power at all (which I wouldn't think they do).
Oh no, of course not, he could never fire you. Of course, it would be a shame if the department's budget was cut to $10. Of course, the politician would probably want to run that by your boss and get his input on the matter, to make sure the right cuts were being made.
It's not how any insurance works.
You get your car wrecked and your insurance company pays to fix it, you go on.
You get your house burned down and your insurance company pays to fix it, you go on.
Your employee falls down on the job and your insurance company pays to fix it, you go on.
A customer falls down and your insurance company pays to fix it, you go on.
You die and your insurance company pays to bury you, your kids go on.
You get cancer and your insurance company pays and pays and pays and pays and...
Sure, the model might work for something simple like a broken leg, but we have too many incurable chronic diseases that are expensive to treat, and to the chagrin of the moral police, not all of them are the fault of the sufferer.
Previously their password was password. Now they'll need at least one special character, so it'll be password!
If people filled up their gas tanks with uranium, they'd be screaming "nuke baby nuke!"
Because "One bad apple spoils the bunch" as the old saying goes.
those who got caught were the ones who downloaded the 'sick shit'.
No, he said bought, as in "with their own credit card".
It's sick shit either way, it's the people dumb enough to pay for it who get caught.
may not have been so 10 or 20 years ago.
We've had the internet for over a decade now, and yet "ON TEH INTARWEBS!!1!" is still supposedly a novel and non-obvious way to do things.
It depends on what exactly they mean by "taught". Can he prove the chain rule? L'Hospital? Or has he simply memorized the equations and learned to make use of them? The latter I could see being done in days if you've got that kind of memory.