I am a golfer, and one constant amongst us is that we'd sooner cheat and use the old foot-wedge from the rough than risk dinging up our new shiny $500 stick. We also pee in the rough. And smoke cigars. I don't see the need to bring in statisticians and physicists for this conundrum.
I question the morality of cops for hire. Doesn't a private company paying the police anything, for any reason, other than general taxation, imply corruption?
I know that there are university cops at private colleges with their own cars and shit, but this just seems weird.
Seconded. I have my wife's parents using Linux Mint and they took to it very quickly. The interface is very familiar with the Menu and Task Bar defaulted to the bottom just like it would be in Windows XP. They only really use their computers for online banking and facebook and it's worked beautifully. They also loved it when I welcomed them to the dark side of computing!
I've always liked the comparison to musicians. As a guitarist myself, throughout my life I've "inspired" others to want to play, and so I'd set them up with everything they need to get started on the right foot. They always quit somewhere between "damn, my fingers hurt!" and "why can't I play like you, yet?"
It puzzled me until I realized that such people aren't actually interested in playing the guitar, so much as they want to prove to themselves that what they thought was easy actually is easy. In short, their childood schooling, and probably their religious beliefs, have led them to the erroneous conclusion that they can be great at anything they put their hands on.
On topic, to "hack" is to recognize one's own ignorance. Schools aren't prepared for the PTA fallout of letting kids ponder what it means to be stupid.
I found Slashdot roughly 4 years ago by clicking through a hyperlink on another website. I have been an almost-daily reader ever since. A paywall would have turned me away then. A paywall will turn me away now.
I was once stopped in 2005 by a police officer on the NY side of the bridge for taking pictures on the bridge (one of my passengers was taking pictures).
Presumably, the police think that taking pictures == terrorism.
If you ask me, police enactment of political retribution against an entire city == terrorism.
You didn't really specify what the job was that you consider to be worth more pay than they were offering...
At any rate, plumbers can actually make decent money because their skills are pretty damn useful. Plus, they have a work ethic that most desk jockeys cannot even comprehend. Perhaps you're in the wrong profession?
Suppose a stadium is holding an event; knowing how much traffic is making its way toward the arena might help the venue change its parking lot resources accordingly, he said.
... or you could just count the number of tickets sold.
What if we made it like jury duty? Citizens get conscripted to Congress for a specified amount of time, during which they get paid current congressional salary, and when that time is up, they go on about their lives, and we get a fresh batch.
That's definitely overly simplistic, but it sure beats douche bags like Rod Blagojevich actually attempting to SELL A SENATORIAL SEAT.
If a message is stated as "Private" it should be treated entirely as private. I think that implication would hold up in any court as a reasonable expectation, regardless of how Facebook mines Public or Shared content. Dangerous precedent otherwise.
I disagree. Scribbling "Private" on the front of a postcard doesn't make your message any more secure.
True story - I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh show the other day, and the guest host thought it was hilarious that the tourists on the ship would not get to see the polar bears...
the ACA only fines you "tax" if you don't have it or the companies don't have enough.
Ok. Then suffice to say that it's a tax on the poor (minimum wage workers employed by massive retail corporations which do not extend health care benefits to all employees) and the self-employed. Essentially, this is enriching the coffers of scummy insurance providers at the expense of folks who struggle to even pay their rent. The public option proposal was a bait and switch.
also religious institutions have no problem giving out viagra to men. it is just female drugs that present problems.
Obamacare is something that is particularly problematic for religious organizations.
Perhaps then it's time to examine the tax status of those religious organizations!
Seems to me that they should have plenty of extra cash lying around somewhere that they weren't required to pay in taxes. That should be more than enough to cover some pills for the well-being of your fellow parishioners.
By my count, more folks (including dozens of children) have been slaughtered in recent years by young American men who were clearly deranged, than by any well-coordinated "terrorist" attack. Where is the POTUS commission on that?
The less weight means less momentum. Can't count how many times I've been tailgated by some a-hole "country boy" who thinks he owns the road just because he can shine his headlights directly into your rear-view mirror. Guys who drive these trucks are menaces.
Seems like some of the easiest public sources to recognize and associate faces from would be police mugshot databases and sex offender databases. Will former criminals be actively shunned everywhere they go in public, or even subject to mob violence?
Well, you can attack his character with impunity because there would be no way to prove or disprove your assertion (I have never met him, and I'm sure that you haven't either). And calling what he did the "nuclear route" is hyperbolic at best (nobody died).
To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and to refute it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
Show the US be embarrassed for helping to stop about 50 terrorist plots outside the US? Should it be embarrassed for helping to defense Western Europe from the Soviet Union? The NSA was involved in both of those.
That is also a strawman. OP didn't mention anything about foiled terrorist plots or irrelevant 20th century geopolitics.
I think that you are purposefully missing the point.
Fact is, ADHD is a legitimate diagnosis that is made by psychiatrists (yes real medical doctors). However, much like a hypochondriac co-worker's "migraine", or whether that person using the handicapped parking spot is really handicapped, we humans tend to draw conclusions based on our own realities. In my experience, the toughest part about having ADHD is the public perception. Those of us with it can experience nasty feedback loops, whereby a lack of attention at any given moment (for instance, during a conversation) requires one to play catch-up, thus missing the next essential bit of information, and so forth.
There are several methods of treatment, only some of which include drugs. Please educate yourself and be less condescending.
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Senior Executive Vice President of Legislative Affairs thinks that some other company is not playing fair.
Apparently there is no free lunch, unless you're Ma Bell and have the resources to influence fucking Congress.
I am a golfer, and one constant amongst us is that we'd sooner cheat and use the old foot-wedge from the rough than risk dinging up our new shiny $500 stick. We also pee in the rough. And smoke cigars. I don't see the need to bring in statisticians and physicists for this conundrum.
I question the morality of cops for hire. Doesn't a private company paying the police anything, for any reason, other than general taxation, imply corruption?
I know that there are university cops at private colleges with their own cars and shit, but this just seems weird.
Seconded. I have my wife's parents using Linux Mint and they took to it very quickly. The interface is very familiar with the Menu and Task Bar defaulted to the bottom just like it would be in Windows XP. They only really use their computers for online banking and facebook and it's worked beautifully. They also loved it when I welcomed them to the dark side of computing!
Bullshit.
Actively sabotaging child education because you cannot let go of your goat-herding traditions of fear in the desert is WRONG.
I've always liked the comparison to musicians. As a guitarist myself, throughout my life I've "inspired" others to want to play, and so I'd set them up with everything they need to get started on the right foot. They always quit somewhere between "damn, my fingers hurt!" and "why can't I play like you, yet?"
It puzzled me until I realized that such people aren't actually interested in playing the guitar, so much as they want to prove to themselves that what they thought was easy actually is easy. In short, their childood schooling, and probably their religious beliefs, have led them to the erroneous conclusion that they can be great at anything they put their hands on.
On topic, to "hack" is to recognize one's own ignorance. Schools aren't prepared for the PTA fallout of letting kids ponder what it means to be stupid.
Dear Slashdot,
I found Slashdot roughly 4 years ago by clicking through a hyperlink on another website. I have been an almost-daily reader ever since. A paywall would have turned me away then. A paywall will turn me away now.
Good point.
I was once stopped in 2005 by a police officer on the NY side of the bridge for taking pictures on the bridge (one of my passengers was taking pictures).
Presumably, the police think that taking pictures == terrorism.
If you ask me, police enactment of political retribution against an entire city == terrorism.
You didn't really specify what the job was that you consider to be worth more pay than they were offering...
At any rate, plumbers can actually make decent money because their skills are pretty damn useful. Plus, they have a work ethic that most desk jockeys cannot even comprehend. Perhaps you're in the wrong profession?
Suppose a stadium is holding an event; knowing how much traffic is making its way toward the arena might help the venue change its parking lot resources accordingly, he said.
... or you could just count the number of tickets sold.
What if we made it like jury duty? Citizens get conscripted to Congress for a specified amount of time, during which they get paid current congressional salary, and when that time is up, they go on about their lives, and we get a fresh batch.
That's definitely overly simplistic, but it sure beats douche bags like Rod Blagojevich actually attempting to SELL A SENATORIAL SEAT.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984
If a message is stated as "Private" it should be treated entirely as private. I think that implication would hold up in any court as a reasonable expectation, regardless of how Facebook mines Public or Shared content. Dangerous precedent otherwise.
I disagree. Scribbling "Private" on the front of a postcard doesn't make your message any more secure.
True story - I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh show the other day, and the guest host thought it was hilarious that the tourists on the ship would not get to see the polar bears...
the ACA only fines you "tax" if you don't have it or the companies don't have enough.
Ok. Then suffice to say that it's a tax on the poor (minimum wage workers employed by massive retail corporations which do not extend health care benefits to all employees) and the self-employed. Essentially, this is enriching the coffers of scummy insurance providers at the expense of folks who struggle to even pay their rent. The public option proposal was a bait and switch.
also religious institutions have no problem giving out viagra to men. it is just female drugs that present problems.
Good point.
Obamacare is something that is particularly problematic for religious organizations.
Perhaps then it's time to examine the tax status of those religious organizations!
Seems to me that they should have plenty of extra cash lying around somewhere that they weren't required to pay in taxes. That should be more than enough to cover some pills for the well-being of your fellow parishioners.
Can you identify the specifics that weren't known before? (excluding revelations concerning spying on other countries).
Sure: http://www.theguardian.com/world/the-nsa-files
Welcome to the internet.
By my count, more folks (including dozens of children) have been slaughtered in recent years by young American men who were clearly deranged, than by any well-coordinated "terrorist" attack. Where is the POTUS commission on that?
The less weight means less momentum. Can't count how many times I've been tailgated by some a-hole "country boy" who thinks he owns the road just because he can shine his headlights directly into your rear-view mirror. Guys who drive these trucks are menaces.
Yeah, I'm generalizing.
Seems like some of the easiest public sources to recognize and associate faces from would be police mugshot databases and sex offender databases. Will former criminals be actively shunned everywhere they go in public, or even subject to mob violence?
Hopefully.
And how about the accused and acquited?
Well, you can attack his character with impunity because there would be no way to prove or disprove your assertion (I have never met him, and I'm sure that you haven't either). And calling what he did the "nuclear route" is hyperbolic at best (nobody died).
That is the definition of a straw man argument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman
To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and to refute it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
Show the US be embarrassed for helping to stop about 50 terrorist plots outside the US? Should it be embarrassed for helping to defense Western Europe from the Soviet Union? The NSA was involved in both of those.
That is also a strawman. OP didn't mention anything about foiled terrorist plots or irrelevant 20th century geopolitics.
I think that you are purposefully missing the point. Fact is, ADHD is a legitimate diagnosis that is made by psychiatrists (yes real medical doctors). However, much like a hypochondriac co-worker's "migraine", or whether that person using the handicapped parking spot is really handicapped, we humans tend to draw conclusions based on our own realities. In my experience, the toughest part about having ADHD is the public perception. Those of us with it can experience nasty feedback loops, whereby a lack of attention at any given moment (for instance, during a conversation) requires one to play catch-up, thus missing the next essential bit of information, and so forth. There are several methods of treatment, only some of which include drugs. Please educate yourself and be less condescending.
I like the ACLU's stance here. If everyone is not free, than nobody is free.