Considering the small but non-zero chance that one of these morons initiates something contagious and harmful, yes, I'm fine with the Feds cracking down on "basement biolabs".
Go back to making custom party drugs, you dolts. That only mostly kills people that arguably volunteer for it.
Map the stores to INCOME, not skin color. Yes, there's high commonality to white = wealthy, people of color = less wealthy, but you could just as easily say "Apple wants to place its stores near people with expensive haircuts" or "...people who travel a lot".
Of course, one could map it to skin color if one was disingenuous and wanted a divisive clickbait headline. But who would be such an asshole as to do that deliberately?
Average income India: "India's per capita income (nominal) was Rs7,593 in 2013, ranked at 112th out of 164 countries by the World Bank, while its per capita income on purchasing power parity (PPP) basis was US$5,350, and ranked 106th."
Electrification: http://www.hindustantimes.com/... "In 2 years, BJP govt electrified 13523 villages; only 8% were completely electrified As of May 25, 2017, 13,523 villages have been electrified, but 100% household connectivity has been achieved in only 1,089 villages"
Clean Water: "In 2008, 88% of the population in India had access to an improved water source, but only 31% had access to improved sanitation. In rural areas, where 72% of India's population lives, the respective shares are 84% for water and only 21% for sanitation"
Build a boutique, experimental (dangerous as fuck*) transport system in a country where things like clean water, sanitation, basic education, and electricity are still not a "given" for a billion people.
A friend worked for large multinational firewall vendor, as the primary tech sales lead for S & SE Asia. He said that he could hardly bear it, slogging into some shitville city to install $100,000+ firewall equipment in some school building, where the power cables were literally lying in the mud in the street, trailing in the door, and running to what looked like a birdnest of a power box. Oh, and it wasn't infrequent that they were installing firewalls on government contracts WHERE THERE WAS NO SERVER TO PROTECT ("Yet!" said the local government functionary, optimistically).
Not sure I have the time to write it alldown: But here's a taste. I was an effeminate boy child. Silky hair, delicate features. Cried easily. Got to live pretty much from as early as I can remember until late high school being mistaken for a girl accidentally ("and what will your daughter have to order?") to constant, pervasive bullying. How about getting on the bus as a FIRST grader, proud of the new hat I got for Christmas, only to have a senior high schooler tear it from my head? When the bus driver finally got it sent back up front, someone had scrawled FAGGOT indelibly inside it. How about having high schoolers cruising town routinely scream "FAGGOT" and "BUTTFUCKER" as they drove by? How about my first year in a new school, when the local bully targeted me (the kid who just moved to town) as his victim du jour? Constant, routine humiliation that school officials either couldn't or wouldn't stop? Ending in a set-up fight (I tried to run away, but of course that wasn't allowed by the onlookers there for a show!) after school one day that led to him publicly kicking the shit out of me?
Maybe understand that I'm not speaking from the position of an arrogant dick who's never been there. I'm speaking from EXPERIENCE about the only way that I escaped that cycle of victimization.
The US was *very* insular really until WWI, and even not terribly open after that until WW2 in the sense you mean.
Nevertheless, the US grew staggeringly out of proportion to all Old-World economies from really the post Civil War era onward.
Face it, the US is as large as Europe in terms of population and geography (and far better off in terms of arable land and raw resources), and Europe did quite nicely largely on its own (except for the occasional spate of fratricide) for most of modern history.
No, aside from some sort of generally banal liberalist meme of "we all need to understand each other better to get along" kum-bay-yah unproven thing, no, the US really *doesn't* need the rest of the world.
I'm not a zealot that demands we privatize everything, but it's practically certain that the private sector can and will do almost anything cheaper than a government agency.
There's about 80 million years of differential, evolutionarily, right there. (And that's discounting the accelerating pace of change once a self-aware species can do things like direct its own evolution.)
If an ant goes out foraging, insofar as it has any thought process at all, if it comes back and its nest is wrecked, that's just something that HAPPENED - I doubt even a self-aware ant could ever conceptualize the idea that "oh that's just a big thing like me backing his car out of the garage that did it".
Oh, I understand the current trends in human psychology, and I consider them more indicative of conventional wisdom than scholarship.
Personally, I'm more of a humanist than that; apparently the scientific literature has circled nearly all the way back around.
I mean, if humans are simply mechanical organisms that respond predictably to stimuli and thus any choice can be 'explained away' as not really the individual's choice, how is that pragmatically different than simply saying "It is as god wills it"?
...while I appreciate his candor, let's be blunt: we're PEOPLE, not rats in a Skinner box.
We have brains, and it's up to us if we choose to engage them or not. Whether we chase that dopamine hit of 'ooh, someone liked my post' and sit on Facebook for another 5 mins, or if we say 'you know, I should probably play with my kids'.
While certainly FB and other entities take advantage of mammalian psychology as much as they can, we are ultimately responsible for OUR OWN CHOICES. For good or ill.
The Democrats have ardently opposed any sort of testing or requirements for any voters, asserting that any such test is inherently biased against minorities and the poor.
Hell, you have to show a DL to cash a check or buy a beer in the US, but Democrats insist it's not necessary to vote.
Personally, I'd be fine with making it the US citizenship test: there are 100 questions, you get asked random 10 of the 100. You only need to answer 6 of the 10 correctly to pass. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/de...
I get the point of why people find cryptocurrencies necessary.
And, it's not like banks or investment portfolios haven't (effectively) done the same sort of thing to a comparable order of magnitude of actual dollars.
But while bitcoin et al *seemingly* climb in value, I personally don't see the market recognizing/factoriing in this sort of vulnerability to equally-fiat crypto currencies.
"Billionaire basically keeps the lights on for money-losing ventures. Employees at the places feel they need more $$, billionaire decides he's not a money-sponge and decides to walk away" - would be better title.
You mean aside from: - delivery person can still use their eyes, and determine how nice a place it is - (minimum wage) delivery person HAS DETAILS ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE HOME.
No, but the provable fact is that about every 100-120k years CO2 and temperature spike radically and then drop back down.
The last one was...about 120k years ago. So we are right on schedule for a spike.
Yet, when we see temperature spiking and CO2 spiking pretty much the way it's historically done, on approximately an historical timeline, we assert that THIS TIME it's SUVs and Republicans causing it. To do so postulates both that a) whatever regular, cyclical mechanism was in place has STOPPED, and b) that it's been entirely replaced with a seemingly-identical mechanism made largely by humans. That's just ludicrous.
I *believe* human activity is likely making the spike worse, sure. But *primarily* caused by humans? Nonsense.
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Considering the small but non-zero chance that one of these morons initiates something contagious and harmful, yes, I'm fine with the Feds cracking down on "basement biolabs".
Go back to making custom party drugs, you dolts.
That only mostly kills people that arguably volunteer for it.
Map the stores to INCOME, not skin color.
Yes, there's high commonality to white = wealthy, people of color = less wealthy, but you could just as easily say "Apple wants to place its stores near people with expensive haircuts" or "...people who travel a lot".
Of course, one could map it to skin color if one was disingenuous and wanted a divisive clickbait headline. But who would be such an asshole as to do that deliberately?
...fusion is only "about 30 years away"!
""No money from the tuition waivers actually ends up in our pockets" (so it shouldn't be taxed).
Pretty sure if you get something of commercial value, it should be taxed.
If I give you a trip to Tahiti, that's not something in your POCKET, but most certainly it's taxable, particularly if it's compensatory.
Sounds like people are sad that loopholes are being closed.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=populatio...
Population of India: 1.324 billion.
Average income India:
"India's per capita income (nominal) was Rs7,593 in 2013, ranked at 112th out of 164 countries by the World Bank, while its per capita income on purchasing power parity (PPP) basis was US$5,350, and ranked 106th."
Electrification:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/...
"In 2 years, BJP govt electrified 13523 villages; only 8% were completely electrified
As of May 25, 2017, 13,523 villages have been electrified, but 100% household connectivity has been achieved in only 1,089 villages"
Clean Water:
"In 2008, 88% of the population in India had access to an improved water source, but only 31% had access to improved sanitation. In rural areas, where 72% of India's population lives, the respective shares are 84% for water and only 21% for sanitation"
Maybe check these facts BEFORE you try to reply?
Build a boutique, experimental (dangerous as fuck*) transport system in a country where things like clean water, sanitation, basic education, and electricity are still not a "given" for a billion people.
*Think I'm wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Jesus wept.
A friend worked for large multinational firewall vendor, as the primary tech sales lead for S & SE Asia. He said that he could hardly bear it, slogging into some shitville city to install $100,000+ firewall equipment in some school building, where the power cables were literally lying in the mud in the street, trailing in the door, and running to what looked like a birdnest of a power box.
Oh, and it wasn't infrequent that they were installing firewalls on government contracts WHERE THERE WAS NO SERVER TO PROTECT ("Yet!" said the local government functionary, optimistically).
Implying I don't understand it?
Not sure I have the time to write it alldown: But here's a taste.
I was an effeminate boy child. Silky hair, delicate features. Cried easily. Got to live pretty much from as early as I can remember until late high school being mistaken for a girl accidentally ("and what will your daughter have to order?") to constant, pervasive bullying.
How about getting on the bus as a FIRST grader, proud of the new hat I got for Christmas, only to have a senior high schooler tear it from my head? When the bus driver finally got it sent back up front, someone had scrawled FAGGOT indelibly inside it.
How about having high schoolers cruising town routinely scream "FAGGOT" and "BUTTFUCKER" as they drove by?
How about my first year in a new school, when the local bully targeted me (the kid who just moved to town) as his victim du jour? Constant, routine humiliation that school officials either couldn't or wouldn't stop? Ending in a set-up fight (I tried to run away, but of course that wasn't allowed by the onlookers there for a show!) after school one day that led to him publicly kicking the shit out of me?
Maybe understand that I'm not speaking from the position of an arrogant dick who's never been there. I'm speaking from EXPERIENCE about the only way that I escaped that cycle of victimization.
Except this is provably not true.
The US was *very* insular really until WWI, and even not terribly open after that until WW2 in the sense you mean.
Nevertheless, the US grew staggeringly out of proportion to all Old-World economies from really the post Civil War era onward.
Face it, the US is as large as Europe in terms of population and geography (and far better off in terms of arable land and raw resources), and Europe did quite nicely largely on its own (except for the occasional spate of fratricide) for most of modern history.
No, aside from some sort of generally banal liberalist meme of "we all need to understand each other better to get along" kum-bay-yah unproven thing, no, the US really *doesn't* need the rest of the world.
Or we could just "man up" (yes, sexist term, that) and get the fuck over it?
If you don't like your work environment complain. If you feel complaining will hurt your career there, you have two choices: risk it, or leave.
Your hurt feelings really aren't meaningful to anyone but you. And they aren't meaningful to you unless you let them be.
I'm not a zealot that demands we privatize everything, but it's practically certain that the private sector can and will do almost anything cheaper than a government agency.
There's about 80 million years of differential, evolutionarily, right there. (And that's discounting the accelerating pace of change once a self-aware species can do things like direct its own evolution.)
If an ant goes out foraging, insofar as it has any thought process at all, if it comes back and its nest is wrecked, that's just something that HAPPENED - I doubt even a self-aware ant could ever conceptualize the idea that "oh that's just a big thing like me backing his car out of the garage that did it".
Oh, I understand the current trends in human psychology, and I consider them more indicative of conventional wisdom than scholarship.
Personally, I'm more of a humanist than that; apparently the scientific literature has circled nearly all the way back around.
I mean, if humans are simply mechanical organisms that respond predictably to stimuli and thus any choice can be 'explained away' as not really the individual's choice, how is that pragmatically different than simply saying "It is as god wills it"?
...Just when I think we've reached the limits of how crazy fucked-up the Japanese can be, they show me I'm wrong.
Keep shining, you crazy Japanese.
....figure out what you're going to do with that 20%-30% upcharge you're not spending?
...while I appreciate his candor, let's be blunt: we're PEOPLE, not rats in a Skinner box.
We have brains, and it's up to us if we choose to engage them or not. Whether we chase that dopamine hit of 'ooh, someone liked my post' and sit on Facebook for another 5 mins, or if we say 'you know, I should probably play with my kids'.
While certainly FB and other entities take advantage of mammalian psychology as much as they can, we are ultimately responsible for OUR OWN CHOICES. For good or ill.
....this is pretty much par for any volunteer thing that I've participated in.
99% do nothing, 1% do 90%+
(I'm not trying to virtue-signal here, I've been a member of both groups depending on the project.)
...that soon we'll hear that Iran and DPRK have both independently begun development of 'quark bombs'.
The Democrats have ardently opposed any sort of testing or requirements for any voters, asserting that any such test is inherently biased against minorities and the poor.
Hell, you have to show a DL to cash a check or buy a beer in the US, but Democrats insist it's not necessary to vote.
Personally, I'd be fine with making it the US citizenship test: there are 100 questions, you get asked random 10 of the 100. You only need to answer 6 of the 10 correctly to pass.
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/de...
Seems fair.
Civics test: will never happen.
"Here, to prevent someone uploading unauthorized nudes of you, send nudes."
Best idea since European advertisers convinced women that showing their tits was somehow liberating. LOL.
I get the point of why people find cryptocurrencies necessary.
And, it's not like banks or investment portfolios haven't (effectively) done the same sort of thing to a comparable order of magnitude of actual dollars.
But while bitcoin et al *seemingly* climb in value, I personally don't see the market recognizing/factoriing in this sort of vulnerability to equally-fiat crypto currencies.
I didn't assert causation at all. Just observation: regular spikes of warming+CO2.
This one is happening pretty much exactly on schedule.
How is this intrinsically different than the last 20 times it happened?
Yes, exactly.
"Billionaire basically keeps the lights on for money-losing ventures. Employees at the places feel they need more $$, billionaire decides he's not a money-sponge and decides to walk away" - would be better title.
...you mean I can't just plop my kid in a chair, throw my ipad at them and tell them to watch youtube until I'm ready to deal with them?
Well, fuck, why didn't anyone tell me that BEFORE I started producing womb fruit?
You mean aside from:
- delivery person can still use their eyes, and determine how nice a place it is
- (minimum wage) delivery person HAS DETAILS ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE HOME.
Yeah, no.
No, but the provable fact is that about every 100-120k years CO2 and temperature spike radically and then drop back down.
The last one was...about 120k years ago. So we are right on schedule for a spike.
Yet, when we see temperature spiking and CO2 spiking pretty much the way it's historically done, on approximately an historical timeline, we assert that THIS TIME it's SUVs and Republicans causing it. To do so postulates both that a) whatever regular, cyclical mechanism was in place has STOPPED, and b) that it's been entirely replaced with a seemingly-identical mechanism made largely by humans.
That's just ludicrous.
I *believe* human activity is likely making the spike worse, sure.
But *primarily* caused by humans? Nonsense.
Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's been happening literally for the last 2-3 MILLION years.