How many investigations into the Clintons ended abruptly after the main witnesses suddenly committed suicide? By shooting themselves. In the back of the head. Twice.
And do you really think if the same thing had happened to a guy (molten metal falling down his pants and someone cutting his pants off) he wouldn't have had the same sort of joking? In our group we tease each other constantly over anything and everything. We take it, we give it, we deal with it. If someone's feelings got hurt by the teasing, we'd stop teasing that person, but they'd become an outsider at that point. When you work in close proximity to a group of people for extended periods of time you have to have a way to ease the natural tensions that arise.
We know how to build wind farms. - Think of the birds!
We know how to build hydro-electric stations. - Think of the fish!
We know how to build geo-thermal stations. - Think of the fish!
We know how to build solar stations. - Think of the birds!
Each form of renewable energy comes with it's own impact to the environment. As long as that's the case and any environmentalist with a microphone can shut down progress, the US will never be able to cut ties with fossil fuels. The one big advantage fossil fuels have is that they are already entrenched in our daily lives and abundantly available.
Psshhh, the Constitution is a "living document." It means whatever the current politicians in power say it means. After all, there was no encryption back at the start of the country, so surely the founding fathers didn't mean to include it did they?
Sarcasm aside, the Constitution was written with vague terminology specifically because they knew times changed and didn't want it misinterpreted. The intent was clear though, the purpose was to severely hamstring the federal government to keep them from infringing on the rights of the people. Unfortunately over the last 200+ years (the last 120 specifically) the federal government has done everything they can to chip away state's rights and amass more power and control for themselves.
The desktop PC is dead! Long live the desktop PC!
The laptop is dead! Long live the laptop!
The tablet is dead! Long live the tablet!
Same song, different verse. Tablet's have their own unique use case. The people that thought they were a replacement for laptops are finding out the limitations of a tablet. Tablets will be around for along time just like laptops and desktops that all have their own place.
Google Play kept doing the exact opposite to me... I have my entire music library ripped to MP3s, I have them on my phone and uploaded them to Google Play's cloud storage. Then every time I played a song through the Google Music app, it downloaded it again to a different folder rather than playing it directly from the existing Music folder on my Android device. I stopped using Google Music and just use the built in music player now.
Comcast is an example. For me to have just 75Mbps connection they were charging me $99/mo. When I agreed to their "bundle" with basic cable, it went to 150Mbps with basic cable for $75/mo.
This could possibly work fine for the creators that want to create new things, have the vision and desire to see them come to fruition, whether they be physical constructs or intellectual. What this doesn't take into account is those in service industries that aren't creating, don't just love their jobs and work for a sense of fulfillment. How many janitors do you think there would be a year into this social experiment? Street sweepers? Fast food workers?
Even more are those that produce just for other peoples' consumption. How many farmers do you think would grow crops to feed any more than their own family if they had a guaranteed income that was enough to live off of?
I know most/. users have grown up on the Disney version of the tale, but go read the original version of The Ant and the Grasshopper.
The tablet is dead! Long live the tablet!
The laptop is dead! Long live the laptop!
The desktop is dead! Long live the desktop!
Over the years the naysayers have smugly declared the death of all sorts of technologies that are still around. It goes through phases. Yes mobile gaming holds some appeal to the younger generation because it's always with you and can be played anytime. But can you really compare Candy Crush to The Division? Or Boom Beach to GTA V? There will always be a market for games on multiple platforms. Just like some users swear consoles are the only way to play games and us old timers say "bring it on, I'll crush your gamepad with my keyboard and mouse circle-strafe!" As long as people are buying and playing games on a particular platform, publishers will continue putting out games on that platform.
Each one may have it's "golden age" as well as it's "golden years" but they'll all be around for a long time to come.
Comcast is limited by physical constraints to the markets they're located in. Netflix is available to anyone with an Internet connection. I hate Comcast as much as the next poor soul that's bound to them simply based on their zip code, but this is like saying "penguins in the wild eat more fish than polar bears at the zoo"
You should have provided her a piece of paper and a pencil so she could draw out 1,212 little circles and then cross off 687 of them, then count up the remaining circles. Would be a system she's likely to be much more familiar with, unfortunately.
Thanks for jumping to conclusions, but I happen to have a BS in Civil Engineering, so I've done my share of math. I also have 4 children currently ranging from HS to College level and all have experienced Common Core to varying degrees. I did my homework when Common Core was first being discussed and all the way through it being shoved down my childrens' and their teachers' throats, have you? It was approved by one individual to the outcry of every single other person on the review board. It's complete and utter rubbish. Anytime you'd like to sit down and solve a complex math problem using your Common Core vs my usage of Common Sense, please let me know. I'll even give you a 10 minute head start.
So we just need to do Socialism/Communism "right".... because Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc, ad nauseum. Socialism/Communism doesn't work because of human nature. You'll always have those in charge that take more than they've earned, well, because they're in charge. You'll have lazy people that will never put in their fair share of work no matter what the incentive. You'll have hard working people bearing the brunt of the burden of society. Not much different than we have now with Capitalism. "Call it Communism, Call it free... Call it what you want, it doesn't matter to me." - Tesla
Not everyone had Statistics in college, sadly... The last sample was from 2010, 6 years ago. At that time the population was 3,200. Now in 2016 there are 3,890. Obviously during that 6 year period, the numbers were on the rise. It's still the first time the numbers have gone up at a sampling point in a century (sadly we have to trust the headline on this since the writer of the article apparently skipped Journalism 101 and doesn't cite when the last time the population increase was).
Companies are called on all the time to assist law enforcement. Every time you hear about a security camera catching a crime in the vicinity, that's a business owner helping law enforcement. This is a non-story. The FBI is doing what they're supposed to do. Obtained a warrant, they're asking a company to turn over records. If the company has no such data, they simply respond those records don't exist. If they do and they're able to provide them without a major financial burden to the company then there's no reason they shouldn't be handed over.
When it's illegal is when NSA, FBI, DHS, etc. try to strong arm companies when they have no warrant and just expect said companies to comply to help stop the a) terrorists b) pedophiles c) current enemy of the state of the day Anyone from groups a and b should be stopped by all legal means available, but the problem is when we start skirting the legal system to catch the really bad guys, it makes it easier and easier to use those tactics to go after the not-so-bad guys, then eventually abuse of the average populace to "keep them in line" and make sure they never become bad guys.
Thank you for the explanation for us common folk.... When you say "Each year arctic ice the size of a country melts," would that country be Vatican City or Russia? "Country" is not a very common measurement of mass in my limited, common experience.
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No wonder they've been fattening up Americans for so long... We really are just a power source for the Matrix.
How many investigations into the Clintons ended abruptly after the main witnesses suddenly committed suicide? By shooting themselves. In the back of the head. Twice.
And do you really think if the same thing had happened to a guy (molten metal falling down his pants and someone cutting his pants off) he wouldn't have had the same sort of joking? In our group we tease each other constantly over anything and everything. We take it, we give it, we deal with it. If someone's feelings got hurt by the teasing, we'd stop teasing that person, but they'd become an outsider at that point. When you work in close proximity to a group of people for extended periods of time you have to have a way to ease the natural tensions that arise.
We know how to build wind farms. - Think of the birds!
We know how to build hydro-electric stations. - Think of the fish!
We know how to build geo-thermal stations. - Think of the fish!
We know how to build solar stations. - Think of the birds!
Each form of renewable energy comes with it's own impact to the environment. As long as that's the case and any environmentalist with a microphone can shut down progress, the US will never be able to cut ties with fossil fuels. The one big advantage fossil fuels have is that they are already entrenched in our daily lives and abundantly available.
Psshhh, the Constitution is a "living document." It means whatever the current politicians in power say it means. After all, there was no encryption back at the start of the country, so surely the founding fathers didn't mean to include it did they?
Sarcasm aside, the Constitution was written with vague terminology specifically because they knew times changed and didn't want it misinterpreted. The intent was clear though, the purpose was to severely hamstring the federal government to keep them from infringing on the rights of the people. Unfortunately over the last 200+ years (the last 120 specifically) the federal government has done everything they can to chip away state's rights and amass more power and control for themselves.
"If you don't give me what I want, you're not acting like an adult!" *foot stomp*
The desktop PC is dead! Long live the desktop PC! The laptop is dead! Long live the laptop! The tablet is dead! Long live the tablet! Same song, different verse. Tablet's have their own unique use case. The people that thought they were a replacement for laptops are finding out the limitations of a tablet. Tablets will be around for along time just like laptops and desktops that all have their own place.
Google Play kept doing the exact opposite to me... I have my entire music library ripped to MP3s, I have them on my phone and uploaded them to Google Play's cloud storage. Then every time I played a song through the Google Music app, it downloaded it again to a different folder rather than playing it directly from the existing Music folder on my Android device. I stopped using Google Music and just use the built in music player now.
Comcast is an example. For me to have just 75Mbps connection they were charging me $99/mo. When I agreed to their "bundle" with basic cable, it went to 150Mbps with basic cable for $75/mo.
$13k a year? haven't you been paying attention? Even McDonald's workers need $15/hr ($30k/year) to survive! A living wage!
This could possibly work fine for the creators that want to create new things, have the vision and desire to see them come to fruition, whether they be physical constructs or intellectual. What this doesn't take into account is those in service industries that aren't creating, don't just love their jobs and work for a sense of fulfillment. How many janitors do you think there would be a year into this social experiment? Street sweepers? Fast food workers?
/. users have grown up on the Disney version of the tale, but go read the original version of The Ant and the Grasshopper.
Even more are those that produce just for other peoples' consumption. How many farmers do you think would grow crops to feed any more than their own family if they had a guaranteed income that was enough to live off of?
I know most
The tablet is dead! Long live the tablet!
The laptop is dead! Long live the laptop!
The desktop is dead! Long live the desktop!
Over the years the naysayers have smugly declared the death of all sorts of technologies that are still around. It goes through phases. Yes mobile gaming holds some appeal to the younger generation because it's always with you and can be played anytime. But can you really compare Candy Crush to The Division? Or Boom Beach to GTA V? There will always be a market for games on multiple platforms. Just like some users swear consoles are the only way to play games and us old timers say "bring it on, I'll crush your gamepad with my keyboard and mouse circle-strafe!" As long as people are buying and playing games on a particular platform, publishers will continue putting out games on that platform.
Each one may have it's "golden age" as well as it's "golden years" but they'll all be around for a long time to come.
Comcast is limited by physical constraints to the markets they're located in. Netflix is available to anyone with an Internet connection. I hate Comcast as much as the next poor soul that's bound to them simply based on their zip code, but this is like saying "penguins in the wild eat more fish than polar bears at the zoo"
You should have provided her a piece of paper and a pencil so she could draw out 1,212 little circles and then cross off 687 of them, then count up the remaining circles. Would be a system she's likely to be much more familiar with, unfortunately.
Thanks for jumping to conclusions, but I happen to have a BS in Civil Engineering, so I've done my share of math. I also have 4 children currently ranging from HS to College level and all have experienced Common Core to varying degrees. I did my homework when Common Core was first being discussed and all the way through it being shoved down my childrens' and their teachers' throats, have you? It was approved by one individual to the outcry of every single other person on the review board. It's complete and utter rubbish. Anytime you'd like to sit down and solve a complex math problem using your Common Core vs my usage of Common Sense, please let me know. I'll even give you a 10 minute head start.
Just program the chips to use Common Core math
Would you believe, we've perfected the Cone of Silence, it just happens to look very similar to a plastic bag....
So we just need to do Socialism/Communism "right".... because Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc, ad nauseum. Socialism/Communism doesn't work because of human nature. You'll always have those in charge that take more than they've earned, well, because they're in charge. You'll have lazy people that will never put in their fair share of work no matter what the incentive. You'll have hard working people bearing the brunt of the burden of society. Not much different than we have now with Capitalism. "Call it Communism, Call it free... Call it what you want, it doesn't matter to me." - Tesla
Not everyone had Statistics in college, sadly... The last sample was from 2010, 6 years ago. At that time the population was 3,200. Now in 2016 there are 3,890. Obviously during that 6 year period, the numbers were on the rise. It's still the first time the numbers have gone up at a sampling point in a century (sadly we have to trust the headline on this since the writer of the article apparently skipped Journalism 101 and doesn't cite when the last time the population increase was).
My thoughts exactly... hopefully he has enough to keep him busy and off the interwebs for at least a year or two.
Companies are called on all the time to assist law enforcement. Every time you hear about a security camera catching a crime in the vicinity, that's a business owner helping law enforcement. This is a non-story. The FBI is doing what they're supposed to do. Obtained a warrant, they're asking a company to turn over records. If the company has no such data, they simply respond those records don't exist. If they do and they're able to provide them without a major financial burden to the company then there's no reason they shouldn't be handed over. When it's illegal is when NSA, FBI, DHS, etc. try to strong arm companies when they have no warrant and just expect said companies to comply to help stop the a) terrorists b) pedophiles c) current enemy of the state of the day Anyone from groups a and b should be stopped by all legal means available, but the problem is when we start skirting the legal system to catch the really bad guys, it makes it easier and easier to use those tactics to go after the not-so-bad guys, then eventually abuse of the average populace to "keep them in line" and make sure they never become bad guys.
Thank you for the explanation for us common folk.... When you say "Each year arctic ice the size of a country melts," would that country be Vatican City or Russia? "Country" is not a very common measurement of mass in my limited, common experience.
I'm sure it's in the TOU you agree to when you click Install
...the government hates competition.
Where we're going we don't need roads!