The US invents the internet (as the summary says), but, no, someone else should have it (i.e. the people who were too lazy/risk averse to build it).
This is basically rewarding the mediocrity of the world, and soon mediocrity will be enforced on the internet (only the radicals who are Jihadists and Marxists will get a pass).
The more any conflict can be described as ethnicity related, the more the media profits from the click bait, however false it all is.
The more the DNC can say 'We will protect your civil rights based on your ethnicity' (some ethnicities excluded), the more the DNC profits.
Ethnic conflict was supposed to get better under Obama, but he has to dole out to the DNC and the media and so it is far worse with the BLC/police conflict on the verge of civil war.
To have a problem with "binding arbitration clauses" is really to say the people who sued should ALWAYS be able to pocket the money with no strings attached.
If you really insist on settlement fees with no strings attached and the target of your lawsuit won't agree then you have to sue them.
Some people are better prepared than others to file suit. Some people are better prepared to get out of bed in the morning. There's a difference between the government recognizing the right to file suit and the government doling out the means to do it.
Who is buying all this "poison"? If you know better, then why are you buying it?
Studies during the Coolidge administration determined leaded was OK as long as you took the right precautions. The people who were dying from leaded gasoline were mostly refinery workers. OSHA is several levels beyond the required precautions now.
With all the organic stuff out there (which has never been shown to do anything to help someone's health) in the free market , there would be alternatives to leaded gasoline it it were still legal. I believe there were alternatives before it became illegal.
As far as determining what "poison" is, should the government help us determine what we can drink if alcohol is a neuro toxin?
Nobody is dying from going to the "wrong" school, though.
Hmm... you talk about the economy going south. Just based on that description alone I would think of Germany borrowing unimaginable sums of money to throw at Spain, Greece, and Italy's massive spending problems (and the dependencies on other people's money).
The federal government is helping people understand where the good schools are !
Just like the IRS is helping people choose political parties.
Just like the DHS is helping the outcome of the next election.
Just like NASA is helping reach out to muslims.
Just like the EPA has been helping write laws without Congress, and helping to "crucify" people who don't comply with them.
Just like the state department is helping people who donated to the right campaigns. And Chris Stevens.
You might think it would help to shut down the atrocities at PUBLIC schools (rapes, drugs, teachers who don't care, etc), but you would be wrong. Just helping with some naked assertions.
So thank the federal government for all the new kinds of help they have extended to us over the last 8 years. I feel like we are just beginning to learn how much help they can provide!
How dare you impugn the inspiring accomplishments of NASA, such as reaching out to muslim nations and rocketing our tax dollars off across the solar system!
Ranking civilizations by their ability to use the energy of the stars?
What about anti-matter? What about exotic sources of energy that aren't understood very well yet (like dark matter or black holes or time space)?
And how is it that the VOLUME of energy usage relates to the level of civilization? That's like saying whales have larger brains so they have better lives than humans or are on a higher level or whatever.
And you know what? What if the people there are stuck in 1970's technology but are happy in a way that is entirely impossible to empirically measure?
You have to really be living in your parent's basement to care about things like this. Another example is the consortium of nuclear alarmist scientists or whatever.
For too long the FBI has sat back and watched as other agencies have been helping without them.
The IRS has been helping people to realize what are acceptable political views.
The DHS will soon be helping protect our voting process as well as an outcome that is favorable to them.
NASA has been helping to reach out to muslims.
The EPA has been helping write laws without Congress, and helping to "crucify" people who don't comply with them.
The NEA has been helping raise awareness about the benefits of the Affordable Care Act.
There have been a number of cases where the police have helped strangle unarmed people lately.
So good for the FBI! Helping us understand our emails and forward the details to the other helpers in the federal government.
If they dismantled the FDA the government couldn't stop more affordable options from popping up -which is what happened with the epipen situation.
Private F&D monitoring and rating agencies would pop up like expedian and the other private credit reporting agencies... except they wouldn't be funded out of your back pocket on April 15th like right now.
Also if you were dying and needed an experimental drug you could just enlist yourself in a trial.
Glad to hear India has caught up to where the US was 60 years ago.
I also question the military significance of scramjet engines. Why would you want a jet to travel that fast? It's not like you're going to get much of an edge on an ICBM's speed. You can use sats to recon pretty much anything.
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The US invents the internet (as the summary says), but, no, someone else should have it (i.e. the people who were too lazy/risk averse to build it).
This is basically rewarding the mediocrity of the world, and soon mediocrity will be enforced on the internet (only the radicals who are Jihadists and Marxists will get a pass).
If each Chevy Volt pulls $250k from tax payer pockets, I'd hate to think about what the Chevy Bolt costs me when famous people by them.
The more any conflict can be described as ethnicity related, the more the media profits from the click bait, however false it all is.
The more the DNC can say 'We will protect your civil rights based on your ethnicity' (some ethnicities excluded), the more the DNC profits.
Ethnic conflict was supposed to get better under Obama, but he has to dole out to the DNC and the media and so it is far worse with the BLC/police conflict on the verge of civil war.
I've been told that as long as SW devs stay with a company past 45 or so, they can make it work until retirement.
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That plan wouldn't work for any SW folks in this case.
About to turn 35 and jittery
+1 this!
To have a problem with "binding arbitration clauses" is really to say the people who sued should ALWAYS be able to pocket the money with no strings attached.
If you really insist on settlement fees with no strings attached and the target of your lawsuit won't agree then you have to sue them.
Some people are better prepared than others to file suit. Some people are better prepared to get out of bed in the morning. There's a difference between the government recognizing the right to file suit and the government doling out the means to do it.
China knows how to efficiently sink people's earnings to the bottom of the ocean.
The whiney consumers see themselves as the true source of innovation.
Like Jobs would have never design the iPod unless people weren't writing angry columns and overturning cars.
They're just a few steps "ahead of their time".
Who is buying all this "poison"? If you know better, then why are you buying it?
Studies during the Coolidge administration determined leaded was OK as long as you took the right precautions. The people who were dying from leaded gasoline were mostly refinery workers. OSHA is several levels beyond the required precautions now.
With all the organic stuff out there (which has never been shown to do anything to help someone's health) in the free market , there would be alternatives to leaded gasoline it it were still legal. I believe there were alternatives before it became illegal.
As far as determining what "poison" is, should the government help us determine what we can drink if alcohol is a neuro toxin?
Nobody is dying from going to the "wrong" school, though.
Hmm ... you talk about the economy going south. Just based on that description alone I would think of Germany borrowing unimaginable sums of money to throw at Spain, Greece, and Italy's massive spending problems (and the dependencies on other people's money).
We don't want to spend the money we have rightfully collected from our citizens on petty things like protecting them and their internet.
We want to spend that money on creating wealthy, party-beholden government leaders, and who do you think you are to interfere with that?
What? We're behind? But we have so many DoD organizations with "cyber" in their name.
And the heads of those departments make vast sums of money and live in Fairfax, VA with all the other wealthy government leaders.
How could you suggest we are behind?
The federal government is helping people understand where the good schools are !
Just like the IRS is helping people choose political parties.
Just like the DHS is helping the outcome of the next election.
Just like NASA is helping reach out to muslims.
Just like the EPA has been helping write laws without Congress, and helping to "crucify" people who don't comply with them.
Just like the state department is helping people who donated to the right campaigns. And Chris Stevens.
You might think it would help to shut down the atrocities at PUBLIC schools (rapes, drugs, teachers who don't care, etc), but you would be wrong. Just helping with some naked assertions.
So thank the federal government for all the new kinds of help they have extended to us over the last 8 years. I feel like we are just beginning to learn how much help they can provide!
So maybe this thread should be "Gotta love SF Bay Area"
America is more known for NOT telling people what work they can do.
"However, anti-matter is not an energy source, and neither is dark matter."
We disagree.
"They might well be spiritually very advanced (whatever that means for nonhuman intelligence) and very happy and such"
You confirm my question about limits of this measure.
How dare you impugn the inspiring accomplishments of NASA, such as reaching out to muslim nations and rocketing our tax dollars off across the solar system!
Objectivity and value.
Zero intersection.
Have you ever seen a war on EARTH where one civilization attacked another to get their technology?
More likely to come here to measure the size of our barns because of a bet or see what's on CW.
Ranking civilizations by their ability to use the energy of the stars?
What about anti-matter? What about exotic sources of energy that aren't understood very well yet (like dark matter or black holes or time space)?
And how is it that the VOLUME of energy usage relates to the level of civilization? That's like saying whales have larger brains so they have better lives than humans or are on a higher level or whatever.
And you know what? What if the people there are stuck in 1970's technology but are happy in a way that is entirely impossible to empirically measure?
You have to really be living in your parent's basement to care about things like this. Another example is the consortium of nuclear alarmist scientists or whatever.
For too long the FBI has sat back and watched as other agencies have been helping without them.
The IRS has been helping people to realize what are acceptable political views.
The DHS will soon be helping protect our voting process as well as an outcome that is favorable to them.
NASA has been helping to reach out to muslims.
The EPA has been helping write laws without Congress, and helping to "crucify" people who don't comply with them.
The NEA has been helping raise awareness about the benefits of the Affordable Care Act.
There have been a number of cases where the police have helped strangle unarmed people lately.
So good for the FBI! Helping us understand our emails and forward the details to the other helpers in the federal government.
If they dismantled the FDA the government couldn't stop more affordable options from popping up -which is what happened with the epipen situation.
... except they wouldn't be funded out of your back pocket on April 15th like right now.
Private F&D monitoring and rating agencies would pop up like expedian and the other private credit reporting agencies
Also if you were dying and needed an experimental drug you could just enlist yourself in a trial.
Glad to hear India has caught up to where the US was 60 years ago.
I also question the military significance of scramjet engines. Why would you want a jet to travel that fast? It's not like you're going to get much of an edge on an ICBM's speed. You can use sats to recon pretty much anything.
Hmm ... interesting. I wonder how that reconciles with the thing I saw. Didn't bother to find a reference.
Firing older employees (like in this article) is more the exception from what I hear. But (supposedly) companies are less likely to hire over 37.
But I'm 35 so I'm just sayin' what I've heard.
Not wanting people UNDER 30 ?