How do you know they are fit? Do you personally know them, or are you just assuming because they 'look' normal? Do we know that most handicap people do in fact look the part?
The regulations mandate the number of handicap parking spaces based based on the size of the lot, not on the usage one could reasonably expect. That is probably good for stores and places that have lots of random people visiting, but doesn't work so well for places with a relatively stable expected population set. For a normal company, the people who are going to want/need to park close are employees who broke their leg or are 8 months pregnant and those people don't get handicap stickers. It's a problem of one-size-fits-all regulations.
Thank you. I wish people would mod you up. While vaccines are good for thing like polio and smallpox, we need to seriously consider the risk vs. benefit. Valid risk/cost/benefit analysis seems to be seriously lacking in the medical field. I am currently pregnant and I was asked by my doctor if I wanted them to perform a test that is only 60% accurate to look for an extremely rare chromosome disorder for which I have no risk factors. Doctors like to scare patients, either intentionally or unintentionally, in the name of "providing options" and "giving information" and we need to stop it. We need to start teaching doctors about dealing with people. There have been numerous cases in the past where we have discovered 20 years too late that a drug had unintended side effects such as infertility either in the person it was administered to or their children.
This vaccine doesn't even protect against all forms of HPV or all forms of cervical cancer and there is starting to be data that indicates it isn't entirely effective.
It is the intended use of automobiles to drive at high speeds through populated areas. Automobiles driving through populated areas creates a statistically significant increase the number of deaths/injuries related to automobiles. Therefor we should just ban all automobiles. We would no longer have automobile related fatalities and would all be much safer. Alcohol usage has a statistically significant relationship towards domestic violence incidents. Thus we should ban all alcohol usage. Hunting has a statistically significant relationship to increased gun accidents, so we should ban hunting... The list of activities/things that have direct correlations to deaths in their intended usage is rather large. Should we ban them all indiscriminately in the name of public safety? Who gets to decide what is "safe" and what is "unsafe"? Perhaps grapes should be illegal because they have a direct correlation to small children choking to death...
I think the problem is that all the space junk is ALREADY in space. There is far more crap orbiting the planet than operational satellites. AGI has a nice plugin for Google Earth that plots all the space junk and it looks like a swarm of bees attacking the planet.
I worked a job where it took us 45 minutes to compile, an hour to install, and 12 hours to run the regression tests. Tests ran nightly at 6PM and the results were analyzed when we got in in the morning. We were able to do a lot of patch builds/installs to test minor changes during the day, but if it couldn't be patched... We were told to be "not busy" places where the customer couldn't see us.
But then again, when Java first came out, HR people were writing job postings for Java programmers requiring 5-10 years of experience in Java even though the tech hadn't existed that long. HR sometimes follows the script and doesn't think about what it does.
I trust that you know the key difference between a patriot and a traitor? It is the same difference as a Freedom Fighter and an Insurgent. Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and that lot were all traitors. Had they been caught by the British they would have been executed as traitors. Their revolution, however, was successful and thus today we call them patriots. I guarantee you that at the time British believed they were morally justified in the squashing of the insurrection and the cowardly colonials who shot from the bushes. It is too early to tell yet what history will write of Manning, but the fact is he betrayed his oath and his country. He may or may not have been "morally justified" depending on your perspective. Regardless, if you commit a crime, no matter how justified you believe it to be, you must be prepared to pay the consequences because it is still a crime.
But... but... its RADIATION! It's in the air! It's bombarding us! It must be EVIL cause it's RADIATION! We need to protect the children from the RADIATION! And... and... you made the radiation move in funny ways by modulating it! The funny moving radiation must cause cancer cause its funny and RADIATION!
Then don't get the flu shot. It's optional. Lots of people don't get the flu shot and are perfectly healthy. Almost as if their body has a way of fighting diseases on its own... Granted some people don't have that ability so probably need a little help, but the vast majority of the population is perfectly capable of not getting the flu without the shot.
Nice leap from "knowing that your actions have consequences" to "mindless minions that deserve to die." Good to know that you oppose informed decisions so strongly.
Manning knew the consequences of leaking classified information. They make it very clear to you when you get access. It's not just a form you sign, but an hour long meeting where they go into explicit details about duties, responsibilities, and consequences. They then repeat this training on an annual basis. He may have believed he wouldn't get caught, but he had no reason to not know the seriousness of what getting caught would mean.
This is Louisiana... it wasn't that long ago that David Duke (head of the KKK) ran for governor against Edwin Edwards (under federal indictment for corruption at the time). They reelected the rep with the 100k cash in his freezer. The very first governor of LA (back when it was a French Colony) was given a choice: get executed for dueling or go be governor of LA. What more do you expect?
When I graduated college I found a job right away. A friend of mine who graduated the semester after me couldn't find a job and has since given up on working in our field. I had a A average, she had a C average... sometimes the people ARE to blame.
My 18 month old daughter watches the caramel dancing video on you tube and loves it. She dances and sings and it makes her happy. She also claps with the people on the Price Is Right and dances for Seseme Street. She chants "cookie" everytime she sees a big blue fuzzy thing. When we Skype with her grand parents she runs up to the TV even before the connection is made and starts waving and chatting away at it (before the grandparents are there to chat back). She doesn't wave or talk to the TV for normal programming, just when Skype or other video features are on. She gives her grandparents high-fives in the TV and tries to hand them things. The idea that she doesn't understand her surroundings is rediculous. She knows where I keep the bananas. She knows that at the end of the day her doll stroller gets parked in front of the fireplace and the firetruck goes to the left and it is head-in parking only. She is actually better at picking up the living room than me and my husband. Just because they can't talk to you doesn't mean they aren't extreamly smart or that they don't know things.
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How do you know they are fit? Do you personally know them, or are you just assuming because they 'look' normal? Do we know that most handicap people do in fact look the part?
The regulations mandate the number of handicap parking spaces based based on the size of the lot, not on the usage one could reasonably expect. That is probably good for stores and places that have lots of random people visiting, but doesn't work so well for places with a relatively stable expected population set. For a normal company, the people who are going to want/need to park close are employees who broke their leg or are 8 months pregnant and those people don't get handicap stickers. It's a problem of one-size-fits-all regulations.
Try clicking on the link that says "more pricing options"
Thank you. I wish people would mod you up. While vaccines are good for thing like polio and smallpox, we need to seriously consider the risk vs. benefit. Valid risk/cost/benefit analysis seems to be seriously lacking in the medical field. I am currently pregnant and I was asked by my doctor if I wanted them to perform a test that is only 60% accurate to look for an extremely rare chromosome disorder for which I have no risk factors. Doctors like to scare patients, either intentionally or unintentionally, in the name of "providing options" and "giving information" and we need to stop it. We need to start teaching doctors about dealing with people. There have been numerous cases in the past where we have discovered 20 years too late that a drug had unintended side effects such as infertility either in the person it was administered to or their children.
This vaccine doesn't even protect against all forms of HPV or all forms of cervical cancer and there is starting to be data that indicates it isn't entirely effective.
It is the intended use of automobiles to drive at high speeds through populated areas. Automobiles driving through populated areas creates a statistically significant increase the number of deaths/injuries related to automobiles. Therefor we should just ban all automobiles. We would no longer have automobile related fatalities and would all be much safer. Alcohol usage has a statistically significant relationship towards domestic violence incidents. Thus we should ban all alcohol usage. Hunting has a statistically significant relationship to increased gun accidents, so we should ban hunting... The list of activities/things that have direct correlations to deaths in their intended usage is rather large. Should we ban them all indiscriminately in the name of public safety? Who gets to decide what is "safe" and what is "unsafe"? Perhaps grapes should be illegal because they have a direct correlation to small children choking to death...
Learnt is past tense of learn. Learned is an adjective.
I think the problem is that all the space junk is ALREADY in space. There is far more crap orbiting the planet than operational satellites. AGI has a nice plugin for Google Earth that plots all the space junk and it looks like a swarm of bees attacking the planet.
Sure... you drop one thing out of the sky without hitting anyone, therefor nothing falling out of the sky will ever hit anyone.
I worked a job where it took us 45 minutes to compile, an hour to install, and 12 hours to run the regression tests. Tests ran nightly at 6PM and the results were analyzed when we got in in the morning. We were able to do a lot of patch builds/installs to test minor changes during the day, but if it couldn't be patched... We were told to be "not busy" places where the customer couldn't see us.
But then again, when Java first came out, HR people were writing job postings for Java programmers requiring 5-10 years of experience in Java even though the tech hadn't existed that long. HR sometimes follows the script and doesn't think about what it does.
I trust that you know the key difference between a patriot and a traitor? It is the same difference as a Freedom Fighter and an Insurgent. Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and that lot were all traitors. Had they been caught by the British they would have been executed as traitors. Their revolution, however, was successful and thus today we call them patriots. I guarantee you that at the time British believed they were morally justified in the squashing of the insurrection and the cowardly colonials who shot from the bushes. It is too early to tell yet what history will write of Manning, but the fact is he betrayed his oath and his country. He may or may not have been "morally justified" depending on your perspective. Regardless, if you commit a crime, no matter how justified you believe it to be, you must be prepared to pay the consequences because it is still a crime.
But ... but ... its RADIATION! It's in the air! It's bombarding us! It must be EVIL cause it's RADIATION! We need to protect the children from the RADIATION! And... and... you made the radiation move in funny ways by modulating it! The funny moving radiation must cause cancer cause its funny and RADIATION!
Then don't get the flu shot. It's optional. Lots of people don't get the flu shot and are perfectly healthy. Almost as if their body has a way of fighting diseases on its own... Granted some people don't have that ability so probably need a little help, but the vast majority of the population is perfectly capable of not getting the flu without the shot.
Not to mention many fruit juices.
Nice leap from "knowing that your actions have consequences" to "mindless minions that deserve to die." Good to know that you oppose informed decisions so strongly.
Manning knew the consequences of leaking classified information. They make it very clear to you when you get access. It's not just a form you sign, but an hour long meeting where they go into explicit details about duties, responsibilities, and consequences. They then repeat this training on an annual basis. He may have believed he wouldn't get caught, but he had no reason to not know the seriousness of what getting caught would mean.
This is Louisiana... it wasn't that long ago that David Duke (head of the KKK) ran for governor against Edwin Edwards (under federal indictment for corruption at the time). They reelected the rep with the 100k cash in his freezer. The very first governor of LA (back when it was a French Colony) was given a choice: get executed for dueling or go be governor of LA. What more do you expect?
I think this sums it up: Not Everyone Gets To Be Astronaut
When I graduated college I found a job right away. A friend of mine who graduated the semester after me couldn't find a job and has since given up on working in our field. I had a A average, she had a C average... sometimes the people ARE to blame.
Don't they do that normally?
Why does the screen on the phone go black at about 14 seconds into the video?
So I suppose we should just nuke Africa because those people aren't worth saving?
Don't worry, when the deer crashes through his windshield and kicks him to death you won't have to worry about him anymore.
My 18 month old daughter watches the caramel dancing video on you tube and loves it. She dances and sings and it makes her happy. She also claps with the people on the Price Is Right and dances for Seseme Street. She chants "cookie" everytime she sees a big blue fuzzy thing. When we Skype with her grand parents she runs up to the TV even before the connection is made and starts waving and chatting away at it (before the grandparents are there to chat back). She doesn't wave or talk to the TV for normal programming, just when Skype or other video features are on. She gives her grandparents high-fives in the TV and tries to hand them things. The idea that she doesn't understand her surroundings is rediculous. She knows where I keep the bananas. She knows that at the end of the day her doll stroller gets parked in front of the fireplace and the firetruck goes to the left and it is head-in parking only. She is actually better at picking up the living room than me and my husband. Just because they can't talk to you doesn't mean they aren't extreamly smart or that they don't know things.
Google can go down? But Google is the test page for the internet!