Waiting for the lawsuit where the FSF is sued by someone shot with this gun, with allegations that the gun misfired due to a bugs in the Linux kernel. It should be entertaining.
To whit, the tags can be used outside of the school to locate the children. So...they lied. Seriously. If it can read attendance the way you're describing, it can be used elsewhere. RFID doesn't magically turn itself completely off and not work outside of their schools.
How about dumping the air force instead they really are redundant. The marines actually provide a skill set that isn't provided by other branches and I believe is the smallest (not sure if the coast guard is smaller) of the branches.
Such as what? Wearing pretty uniforms? We have the Navy for that. I don't think the Marines have any skills that are not sufficiently duplicated in the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Total from the Pentagon budget: $210 billion per year. I'm concentrating on the Pentagon because they suck up more than half of discretionary spending.
Discretionary spending accounts for less than 1/3 of the budget. The so called "mandatory" spending is what needs to get cut out.
Discretionary spending is 39%. Mandatory spending is harder to cut. That's why the call it mandatory. For example, you cannot cut interest payments. They are what they are. Also, consider Social Security. It has its own budget and its own revenue stream (payroll taxes) that cover most of its cost. Cutting that would amount to diverting retirement income of current retirees to cover the costs of people who are working. That doesn't make a lot of sense.
1. End the war in Afghanistan $100B/year
Sounds good to me
3. Cancel the F-35 program $10B/year -- biggest boondoggle in history
4. Discontinue the Marine Corps $30B/year -- it's redundant
Nonsense. I suppose next is discontinue the coast guard, because the Navy should do it.
5. Close a number of US bases $20B/year
6. Reduce size of Army, Navy and AF $30B/year
The number US bases and military forces should be sized appropriately to maintain the proper level of military readiness.
But these are just pennies to be saved, and don't address the real issue.
$220B is a LOT of pennies.
And "the proper level of readiness" does not require a global empire, which is what we have and cannot afford.
Who cares what Jesus said. He knew nothing about modern medicine. If patients want faith instead of medicine, let them go to a church instead of a hospital.
Since when are people's nonsensical religious beliefs limited to what's in the bible? You can find an irresponsible and/or delusional preacher spouting any damned thing.
1. End the war in Afghanistan..................$100B/year
2. Close half of our foreign military bases...$20B/year -- there would still be 350 of them.
3. Cancel the F-35 program.......................$10B/year -- biggest boondoggle in history
4. Discontinue the Marine Corps................$30B/year -- it's redundant
5. Close a number of US bases,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,$20B/year
6. Reduce size of Army, Navy and AF.......$30B/year
Total from the Pentagon budget: $210 billion per year.
I'm concentrating on the Pentagon because they suck up more than half of discretionary spending.
I'm sure there are other savings that could be had, but nothing that will come close to what could be cut from the Pentagon.
The right thing is to stop monetising debt, slash gov't spending by minimum 50%, which is what the US gov't borrows every year to "pay" for its expenses...
Which would plunge the country into a depression from which it would take decades to recover.
Your logic is flawed. It is perfectly possible for more people to vote for Democrats and yet Republicans (or vice versa) to win the house by a landslide without any gerrymandering.
That may be so, but gerrymandering is what happened.
Regardless, the elected officials' jobs are to prevent the majority from trampling the rights of the minority. We are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic. Democracy is the tyranny of the many over the few and our government is designed to prevent that... should they only have the will to act that way.
Do you have a nice word for the tyranny of a few over the many? What did they used to call that? Oligarchy?
Incorrect. If Congress wants to de-fund something, all they have to do is leave it out of their next appropriation bill. But they don't really want that. What they want is to grandstand, as evidence by this episode.
I really miss physical bookstores. The only new books store in my town was a Borders and it closed last year. I have to drive more than 10 miles to get to a book store so I rarely do. I liked wandering through the aisles, seeing thousands of titles laid out physically according to genre and author. I liked seeing the other people wandering the aisles too. Half an hour at the bookstore was not time wasted. It takes me LONGER to find a title I want to buy online.
Also, I want to share books I buy with my wife, so we share the same Amazon account. Only thing is, she reads more books than me and our reading interests only have about a 30% overlap. So 70% of the books she buys are things I would never read and that's what the on-line seller uses to generate suggestions for me. Consequently the suggestions are dominated by books I will never want to read.
Other than my wife's questionable reading choices, I don't know what else is going on at Amazon that seems to be keeping me from finding books I want to read. But there sure seems to be something. Maybe they promote books on which they make the most profit. Or maybe it's the flood of books that never would have been published in the bad old days of print books.
Of course, there were plenty of bad books then too. But for every great book that is now published because no print publisher would touch it there must be 20 pieces of garbage cluttering up the e-sellers' virtual bookshelves.
Well, there are some ways. Sometimes companies force their employees to sign agreements that state they cannot immediately go to work for a client or competitor. Also, there are some contracts that may forbid clients from hiring employees away from the company for a certain time.
Either way, they're being complete shits. GM already decided to pull the contract probably for the obvious reason: because HP is going down due to incompetent management and GM needs to have IT people it can rely on.
And suing their former employees right after announcing a 20,000 person layoff is really going to cement their reputation as a company that shits on its employees and nobody good is going to want to work there ever again. How many of those 20,000 employees' jobs could have been saved if HP hadn't blown $10 Billion on Autonomy. By my rough calculation... ALL OF THEM.
The fact that their act was done as a part of a planned campaign, the utilization and publishing of this information seems to be done with malice towards the certain individuals (lawful gun owners). Although publishing this information should not be a big deal, but publishing it after a school massacre is not as innocent as it looks.
I agree with your post, but the newspaper management are not as innocent as they claim to be.
They're innocent of breaking any law just like the gun owners are. What's your beef? I thought you guys were proud to stand up for your right to have guns.
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The goal in this case is to obtain materials.
No, that is not the goal. The goal of the research is to reduce or eliminate the need for the rare earth metals.
No, the goal is to get the cost, including externalities, below the utility.
Waiting for the lawsuit where the FSF is sued by someone shot with this gun, with allegations that the gun misfired due to a bugs in the Linux kernel. It should be entertaining.
Navy SEALs do that.
To whit, the tags can be used outside of the school to locate the children. So...they lied. Seriously. If it can read attendance the way you're describing, it can be used elsewhere. RFID doesn't magically turn itself completely off and not work outside of their schools.
No, the tags can be used to locate the TAGS.
Then get marked absent every day intil the trusnt officer shows up. great solution.
Because they are using them to take attendance and the central computer can detect their presence in most places in the school.
How about dumping the air force instead they really are redundant. The marines actually provide a skill set that isn't provided by other branches and I believe is the smallest (not sure if the coast guard is smaller) of the branches.
Such as what? Wearing pretty uniforms? We have the Navy for that. I don't think the Marines have any skills that are not sufficiently duplicated in the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Total from the Pentagon budget: $210 billion per year. I'm concentrating on the Pentagon because they suck up more than half of discretionary spending.
Discretionary spending accounts for less than 1/3 of the budget. The so called "mandatory" spending is what needs to get cut out.
Discretionary spending is 39%. Mandatory spending is harder to cut. That's why the call it mandatory. For example, you cannot cut interest payments. They are what they are. Also, consider Social Security. It has its own budget and its own revenue stream (payroll taxes) that cover most of its cost. Cutting that would amount to diverting retirement income of current retirees to cover the costs of people who are working. That doesn't make a lot of sense.
1. End the war in Afghanistan $100B/year
Sounds good to me
3. Cancel the F-35 program $10B/year -- biggest boondoggle in history
4. Discontinue the Marine Corps $30B/year -- it's redundant
Nonsense. I suppose next is discontinue the coast guard, because the Navy should do it.
5. Close a number of US bases $20B/year
6. Reduce size of Army, Navy and AF $30B/year
The number US bases and military forces should be sized appropriately to maintain the proper level of military readiness. But these are just pennies to be saved, and don't address the real issue.
$220B is a LOT of pennies. And "the proper level of readiness" does not require a global empire, which is what we have and cannot afford.
yeah, but I bet she's amply supplied with delusional preachers.
But... There's only three left in stock!
Who cares what Jesus said. He knew nothing about modern medicine. If patients want faith instead of medicine, let them go to a church instead of a hospital.
Since when are people's nonsensical religious beliefs limited to what's in the bible? You can find an irresponsible and/or delusional preacher spouting any damned thing.
And that doesn't even measure the reduction in harm to patients, but if the nurses are gettingcsick less, they are also protecting patients.
Why wait for that to happen? Put flamethrowers on them and get the false positive rate down to zero.
Total from the Pentagon budget: $210 billion per year. I'm concentrating on the Pentagon because they suck up more than half of discretionary spending.
I'm sure there are other savings that could be had, but nothing that will come close to what could be cut from the Pentagon.
The right thing is to stop monetising debt, slash gov't spending by minimum 50%, which is what the US gov't borrows every year to "pay" for its expenses...
Which would plunge the country into a depression from which it would take decades to recover.
Your logic is flawed. It is perfectly possible for more people to vote for Democrats and yet Republicans (or vice versa) to win the house by a landslide without any gerrymandering.
That may be so, but gerrymandering is what happened.
Regardless, the elected officials' jobs are to prevent the majority from trampling the rights of the minority. We are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic. Democracy is the tyranny of the many over the few and our government is designed to prevent that... should they only have the will to act that way.
Do you have a nice word for the tyranny of a few over the many? What did they used to call that? Oligarchy?
Incorrect. If Congress wants to de-fund something, all they have to do is leave it out of their next appropriation bill. But they don't really want that. What they want is to grandstand, as evidence by this episode.
What's to stop him from printing one million thousand dollar bills or one thousand million dollar bills?
I really miss physical bookstores. The only new books store in my town was a Borders and it closed last year. I have to drive more than 10 miles to get to a book store so I rarely do. I liked wandering through the aisles, seeing thousands of titles laid out physically according to genre and author. I liked seeing the other people wandering the aisles too. Half an hour at the bookstore was not time wasted. It takes me LONGER to find a title I want to buy online.
Also, I want to share books I buy with my wife, so we share the same Amazon account. Only thing is, she reads more books than me and our reading interests only have about a 30% overlap. So 70% of the books she buys are things I would never read and that's what the on-line seller uses to generate suggestions for me. Consequently the suggestions are dominated by books I will never want to read.
Other than my wife's questionable reading choices, I don't know what else is going on at Amazon that seems to be keeping me from finding books I want to read. But there sure seems to be something. Maybe they promote books on which they make the most profit. Or maybe it's the flood of books that never would have been published in the bad old days of print books.
Of course, there were plenty of bad books then too. But for every great book that is now published because no print publisher would touch it there must be 20 pieces of garbage cluttering up the e-sellers' virtual bookshelves.
Well, there are some ways. Sometimes companies force their employees to sign agreements that state they cannot immediately go to work for a client or competitor. Also, there are some contracts that may forbid clients from hiring employees away from the company for a certain time.
Either way, they're being complete shits. GM already decided to pull the contract probably for the obvious reason: because HP is going down due to incompetent management and GM needs to have IT people it can rely on.
And suing their former employees right after announcing a 20,000 person layoff is really going to cement their reputation as a company that shits on its employees and nobody good is going to want to work there ever again. How many of those 20,000 employees' jobs could have been saved if HP hadn't blown $10 Billion on Autonomy. By my rough calculation... ALL OF THEM.
Other HP story of the day, HP May Dispose of Business Units that Don't Meet Targets.. "Wow!" their business managers will say, "Maybe there IS a way to get rid of my boss."
Try using a gun to FORCE the government to listen and see how quickly they pry it from your cold, dead hand.
The fact that their act was done as a part of a planned campaign, the utilization and publishing of this information seems to be done with malice towards the certain individuals (lawful gun owners). Although publishing this information should not be a big deal, but publishing it after a school massacre is not as innocent as it looks.
I agree with your post, but the newspaper management are not as innocent as they claim to be.
They're innocent of breaking any law just like the gun owners are. What's your beef? I thought you guys were proud to stand up for your right to have guns.