If parents want to turn their kids into idiots, that less competition for me when the world needs real engineers to do real shit (stuff that requires real math, not prayer).
I used to think the kids getting more stupid was a good thing for those who don't as it meant less competition. But then I thought that eventually, we'd have to support these dumb fucks, either by some kind of welfare system, either by other solutions all worse. Ultimately, with your level of education remaining the same, you'd be better off with them out-competing then supporting you.
Another important difference is what can be done to correct things. If I am a terrible driver, I can be quite motivated to stop crashing, or stop driving. However, increasing your premiums doesn't make people stop having type 1 diabetes, or magically fixing a bad back. Leukemia? Let's raise your fees, and you'll get better in no time.
Increased premiums, though, ARE what makes a nation of cowards. If you look up any extreme or injury heavy sports, you'll see that there are much fewer participants in the USA.
Take for instance paragliding, for which there are 30x more participants in France than in the USA (if you take hanggliding into account, which is mostly discarded in Europe as an impractical ancestor of paragliding, you'll still get a 6x figure). In Western Europe, any injury short of death is covered mostly free of charge. In the USA you'll have to sell your house (if you have one) to pay the medical bills. In the end, I suspect only wealthy people engage in such sports
You could buy computers with backs that opened, and you could configure them with new hardware...
Yeah, too bad you can't swap monitors, graphic adaptors, hard disks or SSDs, cpus and memory anymore. The evil corporations took away that possibility to increase profit.
Oh wait, you can still do that.
That, plus if you're going to stay in your silly little imperial club with Liberia and Myanmar, you don't get to impose your silly spelling for "metre"
I have to wonder exactly how many episodes of, say, daytime soap operas are lost. Many? Most? The airing schedule on some of the longest-running is so frequent that catching up from a series from beginning to end (if it were possible) would take 6 or so years if you tried to plow through at 40 hours a week.
Generally, when you skip a year or so, the same conversation is still ongoing. So watching an episode per season is enough
From Bash
Seppukakke: You know, in the Old Testament, God was full of Wroth and Vengeance. You did bad stuff, he rained brimstone down on your ungrateful ass or harrassed your people with 7 plagues.
Seppukakke: In the New Testament, its like he has turned over a new leaf, you don't hear some much of the nasty things he did to his people (because if you believe in it, everyone on earth is his creation)
Seppukakke: You know what happened around the time between the New Testament and the Old Testament?
Seppukakke: He got laid.
I was hoping Steven Elop would go to sink MS into the ground as CEO, and anticipating Nokia being free to build a nice Android phone. Guess it will never happen.
Because having something for cheap is good microeconomically, but bad macroeconomically. H1Bs create poor workers, who don't spend money expect for basic, low margin survival stuff. By paying workers more, they can actually spend the money on you, your competitors (including those who compete with you only for the raw purchasing power of the workers), and your B2B customers. It drives business up.
By keeping your margins for yourselves (which as a broken window fallacy afficionado you'll probably advocate, but the fallacy goes both ways), you're basically freeloading on the economy that allows your business to prosper.
What's a mile ? A gallon ? A pound ? Do they use those units in Germany ? This summary only makes sense in Myanmar, Liberia and the US. Was it that hard to convert into proper unit, at least as a complement, as most of us will have to do now ? If you can't bother to adapt to your readership, your readership won't bother adapt to you.
Lists of phone numbers and addresses, voting records of public servants, and other facts or assemblies of facts cannot be copyrighted
This can easily worked around. Insert some bs data about fictitious facts, and these are copyrightable, as well as an easy beacon for infrigement detection
It's like someone caught jaywalking getting clubbed down, handcuffed, dragged away and thrown in the pokey. Enough with the over reactions already.
Well If my only reference as a foreigner is "To Catch a Predator", US Police absolutely need to used a squad of police officers with bullet proof vests, pepper spray, and firearms just to arrest some obese would be perverts whose names and addresses are well known.
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If parents want to turn their kids into idiots, that less competition for me when the world needs real engineers to do real shit (stuff that requires real math, not prayer).
I used to think the kids getting more stupid was a good thing for those who don't as it meant less competition. But then I thought that eventually, we'd have to support these dumb fucks, either by some kind of welfare system, either by other solutions all worse. Ultimately, with your level of education remaining the same, you'd be better off with them out-competing then supporting you.
The biggest hassles are [...] and learning a new number.
Which is why they print it on a card...
...and all the adult jokes removed / replaced by teenage wee-wee poop jokes, because the latter are ok
...and additionally the logistics behind the V-2 was an economic catastrophe that cost way more to the German war effort than to the British morale.
Another important difference is what can be done to correct things. If I am a terrible driver, I can be quite motivated to stop crashing, or stop driving. However, increasing your premiums doesn't make people stop having type 1 diabetes, or magically fixing a bad back. Leukemia? Let's raise your fees, and you'll get better in no time.
Increased premiums, though, ARE what makes a nation of cowards. If you look up any extreme or injury heavy sports, you'll see that there are much fewer participants in the USA.
Take for instance paragliding, for which there are 30x more participants in France than in the USA (if you take hanggliding into account, which is mostly discarded in Europe as an impractical ancestor of paragliding, you'll still get a 6x figure). In Western Europe, any injury short of death is covered mostly free of charge. In the USA you'll have to sell your house (if you have one) to pay the medical bills. In the end, I suspect only wealthy people engage in such sports
You could buy computers with backs that opened, and you could configure them with new hardware...
Yeah, too bad you can't swap monitors, graphic adaptors, hard disks or SSDs, cpus and memory anymore. The evil corporations took away that possibility to increase profit. Oh wait, you can still do that.
Isn't France on a republic or two beyond that one by now?
You're fooling yourself! They're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
That, plus if you're going to stay in your silly little imperial club with Liberia and Myanmar, you don't get to impose your silly spelling for "metre"
I have to wonder exactly how many episodes of, say, daytime soap operas are lost. Many? Most? The airing schedule on some of the longest-running is so frequent that catching up from a series from beginning to end (if it were possible) would take 6 or so years if you tried to plow through at 40 hours a week.
Generally, when you skip a year or so, the same conversation is still ongoing. So watching an episode per season is enough
Well, look at what the Fox says http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
First, you have the Madden crowd - good luck getting EA to budge on releasing sports games for the PC again.
FIFA 14, running the same engine as your silly ballet with epaulettes, is still being published to Windows
From Bash
Seppukakke: You know, in the Old Testament, God was full of Wroth and Vengeance. You did bad stuff, he rained brimstone down on your ungrateful ass or harrassed your people with 7 plagues.
Seppukakke: In the New Testament, its like he has turned over a new leaf, you don't hear some much of the nasty things he did to his people (because if you believe in it, everyone on earth is his creation)
Seppukakke: You know what happened around the time between the New Testament and the Old Testament?
Seppukakke: He got laid.
why even take the baby home? Isn't the DNA sequence stored somewhere in the cloud equivalent ?
Zimmerman should have laid down and taken his beating - cause that's what "keeping it real" means.
(I donated to zimmerman, because that could have been me)
I was hoping Steven Elop would go to sink MS into the ground as CEO, and anticipating Nokia being free to build a nice Android phone. Guess it will never happen.
why put red lights when crossing lanes can just interlace ?
Because having something for cheap is good microeconomically, but bad macroeconomically. H1Bs create poor workers, who don't spend money expect for basic, low margin survival stuff. By paying workers more, they can actually spend the money on you, your competitors (including those who compete with you only for the raw purchasing power of the workers), and your B2B customers. It drives business up. By keeping your margins for yourselves (which as a broken window fallacy afficionado you'll probably advocate, but the fallacy goes both ways), you're basically freeloading on the economy that allows your business to prosper.
Thanks to both of you for sharing this
I'd rather they shared links to the porn so filty it caused them to quit
What's a mile ? A gallon ? A pound ? Do they use those units in Germany ? This summary only makes sense in Myanmar, Liberia and the US. Was it that hard to convert into proper unit, at least as a complement, as most of us will have to do now ? If you can't bother to adapt to your readership, your readership won't bother adapt to you.
You mean "figuratively". Literally would be Undead Hitler, or some dude whose name happens to be "Hitler"
A: They encourage prostitution
IMEI blocking is and stays at network side. The phone is not bricked, it's only unable to connect
well, if it had been base twelve, it would have been divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 10
This can easily worked around. Insert some bs data about fictitious facts, and these are copyrightable, as well as an easy beacon for infrigement detection
Well If my only reference as a foreigner is "To Catch a Predator", US Police absolutely need to used a squad of police officers with bullet proof vests, pepper spray, and firearms just to arrest some obese would be perverts whose names and addresses are well known.