Except PETA euthanizes adoptable animals. According to the state of Virginia, PETA kills well over 90% of all pets that enter their shelters. PETA's is against pets. Period. They do not believe humans should keep cats and dogs in their homes as companions and that the animals are better off dead than living with you or me. I am very familiar with several local animal rescue/shelters in my area who do not need to kill their animals. It's a lot of work, but there are lots of people willing to do it. There sheer number of no-kill shelters belies the fact that a cat or dog needs to be put down if not adopted within a week of showing up at the shelter, much less over 90% of them.
Stumbling about upright and balancing are two very different things. I have two small children (3 and 1) and they can walk, run, hop, and trip over their own feet. Hell, they can fall down while standing still. Never underestimate a small child's ability to simultaneously demonstrate a remarkable ability to climb and dance around unimpeded and then trip over a dust mite.
Have you tried explaining that to a manager? According to management if you haven't built a major system in it you aren't proficient and can't learn it on the fly quickly. That's why they label as "c programmers" or "java developers", etc.
That's all and good, except the HPV vaccine is being sold as protection against cervical cancer which IS extremely rare. That is why is being pushed to young girls, and not boys. If it was just for protecting against genital warts, they would be pushing it equally to boys and girls.
Additionally, HPV is like the flu in that there are multiple strains and the vaccine only protects against a handful that they feel are the most common. Most people with HPV aren't even aware they have it, so it isn't some terrible disease killing and disfiguring people left and right.
...which is why they're used for the most dangerous diseases
Like chicken pox? I'd be interested to also know your thoughts on the HPV vaccine considering the disease it protects against is already incredibly rare.
However, if the universities keep lowering the bar for entry and saying "well this sucks but I guess it's what we have to work with", the high schools will keep lowering their standards. You are settling for sub-par students and hoping that the problem will fix itself magically while all the time the high schools are saying "Hey, we don't need to put all this effort into preparing kids for college because the universities will take them no matter how little they actually know."
People are lazy. They aren't going to fix a problem because you and I sit on the internet whining about it. They are going to fix the problem when we make it hurt them. Lowing the standards and covering up for the incompetence of the K-12 system will only send the message that it is ok to not actually educate our children.
Alternately, why don't we teach the kids in high school the things they need to learn in high school so they aren't playing catch up when they go to college?
If the skills are valuable, why do we keep pushing them further down the line? If each grade level / course is expected to impart a certain level of proficiency on the students, why do we pass them if they are not proficient? If you passed pre-calc, you should have some level of proficiency with the material. Otherwise, why did you bother? What is the point of being able to say "I passed pre-calc!" if it does not imply a baseline proficiency sufficient to move on to calculus?
However, if the community wishes to regulate itself, it needs to be willing to hand over it's own. If a police office shoots and unarmed civilian, his fellow officers should hand him over for criminal proceedings. If a lawyer commits fraud, his fellow lawyers need to disbar him... The problem is when in the desire to avoid outside interference you allow misconduct to continue through a sense of comradeship.
It is not self regulation per say that people object to, but the fact that self regulation often leads to protecting your own instead of seeking justice. Justice relies on the honest and compassionate among us having a louder voice than the sociopaths. If you are honest, speak up when you see evil. If, however, your community refuses to speak up and instead hides the crimes, then the logical conclusion is that the sociopaths outnumber the honest and you cannot be trusted.
Bullshit. The online retailer also has to pay shipping costs on that TV. I just bought a swingset (full 20ft x 30ft playground when assembled) from the internet with free shipping... The in store price (where I had to go and get it myself) was the same as the online price, but buying it online got it delivered to my door. Don't tell me they didn't spend a pretty penny shipping that across the country. They are now shipping me new 4x4's, also at no cost to me, cause I broke the original ones.
The kinds of sales where online works well are when you either know exactly what you want (down to the model number) or don't particularly care because a wide variety of items fit the bill.
So what kinds of items are left? Either I know exactly what I want or I want or I'm ok with whatever is on the shelf in front of me... I have found more variety and better stuff on line. I have also found the luxury of actually doing research on the product I am trying to buy. I buy diapers and cat food from Amazon, shipped to my door on a regular basis. There are actually very few items that you really do need NOW and not in two days, assuming you are capable of forethought and planning. There actually people that buy ALL their groceries online and have them delivered to their door.
I bought a swing set online the other day and it was shipped to my door with free shipping. Had I bought the swingset from the storefront I would have had to find a way to transport it home.
I'm confused as to how you find that hateful. The media recently has been in love with people who do not fit into traditional roles and are thus oppressed or misunderstood by society.
Do you take exception with the word "pretending"? If you dangle and have a Y chromosome, you can put on a dress and take hormones and have surgery so you don't dangle, but at the end of the day you still have that Y chromosome and lack a uterus and thus will always only be pretending. That is a fact and cannot be changed by current technology.
I agree with you, but find your logic flawed. Sex is an action. If it was created by god and is therefore good, murder is also an action that was created by god...
Your reasoning falls into the "all natural things (like arsenic) are good and all man-made things (like computers) are evil" bucket.
And yet if he liked to cross dress in his free time and instead was claiming to be transgendered or something, everyone would be clapping and cooing about how wonderful he is for pretending to be a woman...
I'm actually having trouble differentiating this from 'marketing'? Companies create spokespeople and fictional stories about themselves all the time. Unless he is not planning on actually paying his investors, should it matter if you are going into business with a real 19 year old girl or a middle aged man using the face of a 19 year old girl? The non-existent girl could not have signed any contracts or anything, so I find it hard to believe that real investors didn't know who they were dealing with.
It is also pretty distracting to be fishing around the backseat for a stuffed bear that the 2 year threw on the floor and is now having a screaming fit cause she can't reach it and the world will absolutely positively end if she can't have it back. But we don't have metrics for that:)
I once watched a pedestrian walk into the side of a bus. The bus wasn't moving. It wasn't even at a crosswalk or a bus stop. It was stopped in the middle of the road waiting on a red light. So um yeah. Pedestrians really are that dumb.
No, I think that is his point. And that it's a bad idea. If the user id is the password, you have the same problem you have with credit cards and SSNs. Acquiring a user's ID should not be enough to authenticate the user. The ID just identifies the user and can be used by people that need to refer to the user. You need something else to authenticate. Knowing my name shouldn't authenticate as me. Neither should having my fingers or my eyes.
The idea to use the biometrics to identify the user and the pass-thought to authenticate might accomplish this, and you still separate ID and authentication.
My friends who were stationed on a ballistic sub once estimated that once they started firing they would not be able to offload their entire armament before getting sunk.
Anyway, the Tridents (sub-fired nukes) are ballistic missiles. The cruise missiles (Tomahawks) are not nukes. Unless our armament changed drastically in the last couple of years and I missed it, we aren't nuking anyone with cruise missiles.
That's the thing about missiles... you typically see them coming (especially if they are fired from far away) before they hit. There is never "no warning." It's very obvious once a missile launches and it doesn't take much time to launch an artillery strike.
I think he is complaining that PBS is involved in the suit when he feels that since PBS is government funded, it should be free free. I.E. our tax dollars paid for PBS so all Americans should have a right to view PBS anytime they please, however they please without paying a fee since theoretically we already paid it with our taxes.
So in short PBS is full of greedy bastards who are using our tax dollars to create a product and then trying to charge us to use the product.
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Simple solution: do not use Target's website.
Except PETA euthanizes adoptable animals. According to the state of Virginia, PETA kills well over 90% of all pets that enter their shelters. PETA's is against pets. Period. They do not believe humans should keep cats and dogs in their homes as companions and that the animals are better off dead than living with you or me. I am very familiar with several local animal rescue/shelters in my area who do not need to kill their animals. It's a lot of work, but there are lots of people willing to do it. There sheer number of no-kill shelters belies the fact that a cat or dog needs to be put down if not adopted within a week of showing up at the shelter, much less over 90% of them.
Stumbling about upright and balancing are two very different things. I have two small children (3 and 1) and they can walk, run, hop, and trip over their own feet. Hell, they can fall down while standing still. Never underestimate a small child's ability to simultaneously demonstrate a remarkable ability to climb and dance around unimpeded and then trip over a dust mite.
Have you tried explaining that to a manager? According to management if you haven't built a major system in it you aren't proficient and can't learn it on the fly quickly. That's why they label as "c programmers" or "java developers", etc.
That's all and good, except the HPV vaccine is being sold as protection against cervical cancer which IS extremely rare. That is why is being pushed to young girls, and not boys. If it was just for protecting against genital warts, they would be pushing it equally to boys and girls.
Additionally, HPV is like the flu in that there are multiple strains and the vaccine only protects against a handful that they feel are the most common. Most people with HPV aren't even aware they have it, so it isn't some terrible disease killing and disfiguring people left and right.
...which is why they're used for the most dangerous diseases
Like chicken pox? I'd be interested to also know your thoughts on the HPV vaccine considering the disease it protects against is already incredibly rare.
A better question is why does it matter?
However, if the universities keep lowering the bar for entry and saying "well this sucks but I guess it's what we have to work with", the high schools will keep lowering their standards. You are settling for sub-par students and hoping that the problem will fix itself magically while all the time the high schools are saying "Hey, we don't need to put all this effort into preparing kids for college because the universities will take them no matter how little they actually know."
People are lazy. They aren't going to fix a problem because you and I sit on the internet whining about it. They are going to fix the problem when we make it hurt them. Lowing the standards and covering up for the incompetence of the K-12 system will only send the message that it is ok to not actually educate our children.
Alternately, why don't we teach the kids in high school the things they need to learn in high school so they aren't playing catch up when they go to college?
If the skills are valuable, why do we keep pushing them further down the line? If each grade level / course is expected to impart a certain level of proficiency on the students, why do we pass them if they are not proficient? If you passed pre-calc, you should have some level of proficiency with the material. Otherwise, why did you bother? What is the point of being able to say "I passed pre-calc!" if it does not imply a baseline proficiency sufficient to move on to calculus?
You are probably buying your forgotten toothbrush from the hotel gift shop at a 10x markup in that situation and still aren't supporting local shops :P
However, if the community wishes to regulate itself, it needs to be willing to hand over it's own. If a police office shoots and unarmed civilian, his fellow officers should hand him over for criminal proceedings. If a lawyer commits fraud, his fellow lawyers need to disbar him... The problem is when in the desire to avoid outside interference you allow misconduct to continue through a sense of comradeship.
It is not self regulation per say that people object to, but the fact that self regulation often leads to protecting your own instead of seeking justice. Justice relies on the honest and compassionate among us having a louder voice than the sociopaths. If you are honest, speak up when you see evil. If, however, your community refuses to speak up and instead hides the crimes, then the logical conclusion is that the sociopaths outnumber the honest and you cannot be trusted.
Bullshit. The online retailer also has to pay shipping costs on that TV. I just bought a swingset (full 20ft x 30ft playground when assembled) from the internet with free shipping... The in store price (where I had to go and get it myself) was the same as the online price, but buying it online got it delivered to my door. Don't tell me they didn't spend a pretty penny shipping that across the country. They are now shipping me new 4x4's, also at no cost to me, cause I broke the original ones.
The kinds of sales where online works well are when you either know exactly what you want (down to the model number) or don't particularly care because a wide variety of items fit the bill.
So what kinds of items are left? Either I know exactly what I want or I want or I'm ok with whatever is on the shelf in front of me... I have found more variety and better stuff on line. I have also found the luxury of actually doing research on the product I am trying to buy. I buy diapers and cat food from Amazon, shipped to my door on a regular basis. There are actually very few items that you really do need NOW and not in two days, assuming you are capable of forethought and planning. There actually people that buy ALL their groceries online and have them delivered to their door.
I bought a swing set online the other day and it was shipped to my door with free shipping. Had I bought the swingset from the storefront I would have had to find a way to transport it home.
I'm confused as to how you find that hateful. The media recently has been in love with people who do not fit into traditional roles and are thus oppressed or misunderstood by society.
Do you take exception with the word "pretending"? If you dangle and have a Y chromosome, you can put on a dress and take hormones and have surgery so you don't dangle, but at the end of the day you still have that Y chromosome and lack a uterus and thus will always only be pretending. That is a fact and cannot be changed by current technology.
I agree with you, but find your logic flawed. Sex is an action. If it was created by god and is therefore good, murder is also an action that was created by god...
Your reasoning falls into the "all natural things (like arsenic) are good and all man-made things (like computers) are evil" bucket.
And yet if he liked to cross dress in his free time and instead was claiming to be transgendered or something, everyone would be clapping and cooing about how wonderful he is for pretending to be a woman...
I'm actually having trouble differentiating this from 'marketing'? Companies create spokespeople and fictional stories about themselves all the time. Unless he is not planning on actually paying his investors, should it matter if you are going into business with a real 19 year old girl or a middle aged man using the face of a 19 year old girl? The non-existent girl could not have signed any contracts or anything, so I find it hard to believe that real investors didn't know who they were dealing with.
It is also pretty distracting to be fishing around the backseat for a stuffed bear that the 2 year threw on the floor and is now having a screaming fit cause she can't reach it and the world will absolutely positively end if she can't have it back. But we don't have metrics for that :)
How do you know he was a texting teen?
I once watched a pedestrian walk into the side of a bus. The bus wasn't moving. It wasn't even at a crosswalk or a bus stop. It was stopped in the middle of the road waiting on a red light. So um yeah. Pedestrians really are that dumb.
Who are these 85%, and taxonomically speaking, which kingdom are they classified in?
Nature keeps trying to kill them off because they don't sense the danger but we keep saving them and putting them back in cars.
And that's why we need to complete the move to LTE :P. Under LTE everything is data.
No, I think that is his point. And that it's a bad idea. If the user id is the password, you have the same problem you have with credit cards and SSNs. Acquiring a user's ID should not be enough to authenticate the user. The ID just identifies the user and can be used by people that need to refer to the user. You need something else to authenticate. Knowing my name shouldn't authenticate as me. Neither should having my fingers or my eyes.
The idea to use the biometrics to identify the user and the pass-thought to authenticate might accomplish this, and you still separate ID and authentication.
My friends who were stationed on a ballistic sub once estimated that once they started firing they would not be able to offload their entire armament before getting sunk.
Anyway, the Tridents (sub-fired nukes) are ballistic missiles. The cruise missiles (Tomahawks) are not nukes. Unless our armament changed drastically in the last couple of years and I missed it, we aren't nuking anyone with cruise missiles.
That's the thing about missiles... you typically see them coming (especially if they are fired from far away) before they hit. There is never "no warning." It's very obvious once a missile launches and it doesn't take much time to launch an artillery strike.
I think he is complaining that PBS is involved in the suit when he feels that since PBS is government funded, it should be free free. I.E. our tax dollars paid for PBS so all Americans should have a right to view PBS anytime they please, however they please without paying a fee since theoretically we already paid it with our taxes.
So in short PBS is full of greedy bastards who are using our tax dollars to create a product and then trying to charge us to use the product.