The CDC cares about controlling the disease. They couldn't care less about people being scared except when panicky people starting interfering with controlling the disease.
The Department of Homeland Security is in charge of fear.
I'm starting with the assumption that any five languages popular enough that the writer has even heard of them, might be on the decline but there is no way they will be the next five to die completely.
If it's off-world, we could use the radiation and some catalysts to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen, and ferment it under pressure and heat for a few million years until it's in an easy-to-use portable form.
With the unemployment rate so high, people need more and more education to find work. Not because the jobs have changed and they require more education (though a few do), it's simply to distinguish one job candidate from another. A person 'merely' qualified for the job stands no chance against the competition. The education, no matter how much money and how many years of a person's productive years were sunk into it, is needed the day of the job interview and at no other time.
The flip side is that for a given level of education, people are settling for more menial work than they used to.
We're testing software that will eventually replace my job, and from the looks of things it will take far more than eleven years before the software is ready.
I have to wonder how many people are attempting entrepreneurial endeavours that they are not suited to simply because of the economy. High unemployment is not merely a number, it is desperation and poor decisions and the terrible harm that these can lead to.
Some people feel that way. Others believe that your life was provided by your parents/family/ancestors/community/etc. and that it is not yours but an ongoing debt to someone/something else.
It's certainly not unambiguously an "ultimate right".
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The CDC cares about controlling the disease. They couldn't care less about people being scared except when panicky people starting interfering with controlling the disease.
The Department of Homeland Security is in charge of fear.
It's not so clear who is a department of who.
Please tell me why optimal use of existing facilities is 'news'?
Government being efficient is quite newsworthy.
I'm starting with the assumption that any five languages popular enough that the writer has even heard of them, might be on the decline but there is no way they will be the next five to die completely.
"But citizens in the United States seemed a bit more reluctant to return the favor"
Who says it's a favour?
If it's off-world, we could use the radiation and some catalysts to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen, and ferment it under pressure and heat for a few million years until it's in an easy-to-use portable form.
With the unemployment rate so high, people need more and more education to find work. Not because the jobs have changed and they require more education (though a few do), it's simply to distinguish one job candidate from another. A person 'merely' qualified for the job stands no chance against the competition. The education, no matter how much money and how many years of a person's productive years were sunk into it, is needed the day of the job interview and at no other time.
The flip side is that for a given level of education, people are settling for more menial work than they used to.
So, foreigners are uninformed? That's, um, not racist, exactly...
True, but some I'm fine to passively ignore, and some annoy and/or insult me and make me want to blacklist the seller.
2) If ads are too well-targeted then they become creepy
*Very* creepy! When an ad spouts a random statistic about my precise demographic including my exact age, it's credibility is totally destroyed.
The Republicans are too extreme. The Democrats are too moderate.
Yes, the jury system is flawed.
What do you suggest replacing it with?
We're testing software that will eventually replace my job, and from the looks of things it will take far more than eleven years before the software is ready.
It actually takes two to create children.
That hasn't been true for a few decades.
Correct - the other ways require whole teams of medical specialists.
Okay, so it's a computer mouse that can *detect* a particular grip.
I was really wondering how researchers were able to get laboratory mice to grip guns. And why.
Yes, really.
I'm pretty sure humans have octopodes beat when it comes to music, technology, literature, philosophy, mathematics, etc.
There's more to human civilization than just the absence/presence of cannibalism.
Just speculating, but my guess is that cheating is illegal even without "codified regulations".
Bush Jr decisions will take at least another 10 years to pay off.
Actually, the military-industrial-security complex has been benefiting enormously for quite some time now.
Face it: humans really are different from the other animals.
Rounding to integer numbers of decades is actually easier than it looks.
Can someone explain how this new 'investigation' is different from chapter two of my fifty-year-old network textbook*?
*Graph Theory with Applications, Bondy and Murty, 1976.
I have to wonder how many people are attempting entrepreneurial endeavours that they are not suited to simply because of the economy. High unemployment is not merely a number, it is desperation and poor decisions and the terrible harm that these can lead to.
To end one's life is a choice,
Some people feel that way. Others believe that your life was provided by your parents/family/ancestors/community/etc. and that it is not yours but an ongoing debt to someone/something else.
It's certainly not unambiguously an "ultimate right".
Suicide has nothing to with doing 'something else'. It's not about the future at all.
Suicide is about Making The Pain Stop. Now. At Any Cost.
Being treated 'like the "odd duck."' is a legitimate grievance, but it's a completely different issue from 'feeling like the "odd duck."'