Gun registration makes it very easy to confiscate all guns. I doubt the NRA would mind registration all that much if they could somehow be certain that history wouldn't repeat itself.
I have a hunch that she has an empathy for children which is what drove her to pursue the education thing. While it might be more practical to choose a different career, it is unlikely that she would ever be happy with anything less than engaging young minds.
That is pure fantasy unless you can teach in some sort of gifted/talented program. Those are rare these days. Normally there isn't much of a mind to engage, and anyway it wants to play video games or chase after people of the opposite sex.
It's possible to get a supply of engagable young minds if you create them yourself. She seems to have decent DNA, and most likely her husband is above average, so... well if she really works at it she can have a pretty full classroom. A dozen kids is usually possible, even starting this late.
Anyone who calls kids criminals should be kept far away from kids.
Excuse me? They assault each other and the teacher. My brother was teaching high school in DC and one day a student grabbed his wallet right in class and tried to run. Fortunately my brother was ex-military and knew what to do, but seriously, WTF??? Yes indeed, they are criminals.
Where do you imagine criminals come from? Do you think people suddenly turn criminal at age 18, and couldn't possibly be evil fuckers prior to adulthood? Heck, some asshole stabbed me in the 3rd or 4th grade and I still have the scar 3 decades later. In case you can't figure it out, that would be an assault with a weapon.
It's mightly sick that during childhood the decent people are forced to be in the presense of rotten people. Criminals don't come from thin air. They are essentially sitting in every classroom, except that they haven't yet been arrested because the authorities ignore criminal behavior in children. Remember, I still have that scar.
She should do her part to prevent the coming of the Idiocracy. She should produce as many kids as possible. Before long, she'll have a classroom full of kids. She'll have the right to disipline them and there won't be annoying administrators to play politics. Aim high: ship them off to good schools (MIT, Stanford, Texas A+M, CalTech, etc.) at age 15.
Hardware had pretty much caught up with need for nearly everybody. The low-end boxes were doing find with current software, and the developers weren't being stupid or evil.
Well, that couldn't last. We now take a 100x performance hit for Python, Javascript, and similar languages. (generally the ones that fail to catch type errors until actually operating on your precious data)
This is so wrong. Developers have the luxury of nice hardware. Their employer provides it, or they are a well-paid nerd buying it for home. This turns formerly-good hardware into crap hardware, forcing upgrades. As hardware standards rise, the developers keep getting the very best and we stay in an arms race to buy hardware we can tolerate.
This is an ugly expense. Developers are essentially forcing the less-fortunate and more-frugal to regularly buy expensive equipment to replace stuff that hasn't even broken. This is totally unethical.
Turbine blades go shooting out all over, ripping apart anything nearby. Often this takes out hydraulic systems and rips open fuel tanks. Note that the F/A-18 engines are unusually close together. (compare with F-14 for example) I think one could easily wipe out the other. Metal fatigue is a likely cause, as well as the commonly mentioned bird strike. Wikipedia has a great list of uncontained engine failures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontained_engine_failure
Traders already pay crazy prices to get low-latency access. The speed of light is an issue. This is especially interesting over the London to New York route, with traders paying extra for priority on a special cross-Atlantic link.
The two-hour latency for this neutrino beam is going to be from background noise. Increase the beam intensity and it goes away. I've no doubt that passing direct through the Earth is faster than going along the surface. For worst-case routes, neutrinos win by a factor of pi.
Think for a moment why colorings are added. Is it good public policy to allow this?
This is essentially false advertizing. We humans have evolved to associate various colors with some idea of "goodness", allowing us to get proper nutrition. These colors make us instinctively prefer manufactured products. This is bad for our health.
You might say "buyer beware", but that doesn't solve the problem. People suffer horrible health problems related to junkfood.
No. Well, for some vaccines. Some use chicken eggs, some use monkey tissue (kidney if I remember right), some use human tissue (lung if I remember right), and so on. Some don't use animal cells at all.
Oddly enough, the chicken pox vaccine does not use chickens. It uses an aborted baby.
Vaccines are often grown in media which is derived from aborted babies.
Because it's a tissue culture, the situation isn't quite as horrible as needing to abort babies to produce vaccines. It's just one baby, long ago.
There are plenty of people who care about this anyway. They feel that they would be supporting abortion if they ever make use of anything derived from an aborted baby.
You're part of the reason that people refuse vaccines. When pro-vaccine people deny the well-proven existance of vaccine injury, they discredit themselves. Given that you are now discredited, the somewhat reasonable and very human reaction is to do just the opposite of what you want.
Seriously, can't you see how your words just scream "conspiracy"? You have NO credibility now.
Doctors and the medical community have been wrong before, and while I doubt that is the case here
If most people are getting the disease, then you'd damn well better take the lesser risk of the vaccine.
If a thousand people get the disease each year, all of whom live in northern Africa or southern Asia, the risk situation is completely different. There is no realistic chance of getting the disease. The chance of vaccine-related death or retardation becomes higher than the chance of even getting the disease, never mind getting hurt by the disease.
Where do you draw the line? This is complicated by the fact that accessable information sources are obviously compromised. On both sides you can see blind groupthink. One side has a very obvious financial motive and a huge lobbying effort.
Doctors want unquestioning obedience. They don't want their authority to be challenged.
Even if you do vaccinate your child, you'd best run from any doctor who gets rid of these patients.
BTW, some of these diseases really are quite extinct in the US. Getting infected is about as likely as getting hit by lightening. It's not unreasonable to decide that the vaccine risk (yes, there is risk) isn't worthwhile. It's not unreasonable to notice the political aspects of vaccines, with all the industry lobbying, and decide that the pro-vaccine messages are inherently untrustworthy.
You don't obey the local laws, you are banned from doing business locally
Sure. EU citizens who visit Facebook are doing business in the US.
Or do you believe that US citizens should be free to watch kiddie porn, as long as the server is located in Thailand?
If the law merely prohibited serving those images from a web server, sure. The law bans mere ownership though. Given that law, the US citizen is continuously committing a crime as long as he has the images. This shouldn't affect the server operator in Thailand, but I believe Thai law might have something to say about him. As a courtesy, one would expect the US government to assist the Thai government in enforcing Thai law against the server operator.
Are you that much of a Facebook fanboi?
I actually hate Facebook, along with the US laws I've mentioned, and I partially like the EU privacy law. I'm just objecting to the idea that the EU gets to apply EU law to a server outside the EU. US citizens don't get to vote for EU parliament members. If these laws should apply to us, then where is our representation?
I suppose a country does have the right to block a web site for arbitrary bullshit reasons. Let's not pretend this is anything otherwise: Facebook was not within EU jurisdiction while ignoring the EU law. The EU is strongarming facebook because they can.
There is no reason any fine should be collectable. I suppose the EU will strongarm banks in some way. What we have here is a bunch of thugs trying to extend EU law to jurisdictions outside the EU.
Two or three kids is NOT the 1950's lifestyle. More normal would be two bunkbeds in the boy room, and two bunkbeds in the girl room, plus a crib, for a total of 9. Yes it is a small house, but it's packed with mouths to feed.
So the US should block EU websites if they won't comply with the US Patriot act, the DMCA, COPPA, 120-year copyrights, and all the rest.
I thought you wanted regular punishment, like fines. BTW, I think some of those US laws are criminal. OK if we extradite you for your failure to follow US laws whenever a US citizen goes your web site? After all, you claim that American laws should apply if you're serving web pages to American citizens in the US.
Roughly, vacation time is like a reduction in hours. Assuming 2 weeks is the current standard, you propose a 10% cut in yearly hours. This is like going to a 36-hour week. BTW this enough to really dent the economy, but nowhere near enough to put much of a dent in the unemployment.
Note that in some sense we are back to that 76 hours: most women feel unable to stay home with children. Previously this was not the norm.
We'll end up about average. I claim average is about OECD level, you think is about one of the poorest countries in the world, like Phillipines.
Poor would be Somolia, DR Congo, North Korea, Afganistan, Bolivia, Chad, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Lesoto...
So EU laws should apply to US websites, but US laws shouldn't apply to EU websites? I can see why you'd like that, but it's in no way fair.
If US citizens visit news.bbc.co.uk then the BBC is, by your own logic, doing business in the US. Therefore, the BBC must obey US law. This includes the US Patriot act, the DMCA, COPPA, 120-year copyrights, and all the rest.
Seems fair, right?
You'd best hope nobody from Saudi Arabia visits your web site.
OK, look at this from the other side. Suppose I visit a web site in the EU.
Should the US Patriot act apply? Should that EU web site be required to obey a national security letter from the USA, and required to keep quiet about it? After all, you think local law is determined by where the web client is located. You OK with that?
When we have a power outage, the toilets still flush
Power or not, this hasn't been possible for many years in the USA. Modern toilets have a button that fires about a cup of high-velocity water. This isn't enough to flush, but it's enough to create a mist of microscopic poo particles. (air drafts will carry a small portion of this toward your toothbrush)
To flush, use the tub to fill a 5-gallon bucket. Pour the water into the toilet. This is how we save water.
I could go for an electric toilet. Something like a garbage disposal (as seen on kitchen sinks) could work.
First, 76 hours was difficult. You had no spare time, so people hated the situation. 40 hours has no such problem for most people. Yeah we bitch about it, and I hate it too, but 40 hours really isn't difficult. You have time to sleep, eat, shower, shop, and even post on Slashdot.
Second, England had a massive technology and capital advantage. Currently the Western world has merely a big advantage, and it's erroding quickly. You can slack off when you're so far ahead that nobody can touch you. Today if we slack off, we end up no better than some random crummy place like Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, Thailand, Indonesia, Colombia, Philippeans...
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Gun registration makes it very easy to confiscate all guns. I doubt the NRA would mind registration all that much if they could somehow be certain that history wouldn't repeat itself.
I have a hunch that she has an empathy for children which is what drove her to pursue the education thing. While it might be more practical to choose a different career, it is unlikely that she would ever be happy with anything less than engaging young minds.
That is pure fantasy unless you can teach in some sort of gifted/talented program. Those are rare these days. Normally there isn't much of a mind to engage, and anyway it wants to play video games or chase after people of the opposite sex.
It's possible to get a supply of engagable young minds if you create them yourself. She seems to have decent DNA, and most likely her husband is above average, so... well if she really works at it she can have a pretty full classroom. A dozen kids is usually possible, even starting this late.
Anyone who calls kids criminals should be kept far away from kids.
Excuse me? They assault each other and the teacher. My brother was teaching high school in DC and one day a student grabbed his wallet right in class and tried to run. Fortunately my brother was ex-military and knew what to do, but seriously, WTF??? Yes indeed, they are criminals.
Where do you imagine criminals come from? Do you think people suddenly turn criminal at age 18, and couldn't possibly be evil fuckers prior to adulthood? Heck, some asshole stabbed me in the 3rd or 4th grade and I still have the scar 3 decades later. In case you can't figure it out, that would be an assault with a weapon.
It's mightly sick that during childhood the decent people are forced to be in the presense of rotten people. Criminals don't come from thin air. They are essentially sitting in every classroom, except that they haven't yet been arrested because the authorities ignore criminal behavior in children. Remember, I still have that scar.
Make that something better for health, and yeah! Grapefruit juice, pomagranite juice, or tomato juice would be great.
There is nothing wrong with being a housewife. It's even a duty if there are kids. (and smart people should make kids)
She should do her part to prevent the coming of the Idiocracy. She should produce as many kids as possible. Before long, she'll have a classroom full of kids. She'll have the right to disipline them and there won't be annoying administrators to play politics. Aim high: ship them off to good schools (MIT, Stanford, Texas A+M, CalTech, etc.) at age 15.
Hardware had pretty much caught up with need for nearly everybody. The low-end boxes were doing find with current software, and the developers weren't being stupid or evil.
Well, that couldn't last. We now take a 100x performance hit for Python, Javascript, and similar languages. (generally the ones that fail to catch type errors until actually operating on your precious data)
This is so wrong. Developers have the luxury of nice hardware. Their employer provides it, or they are a well-paid nerd buying it for home. This turns formerly-good hardware into crap hardware, forcing upgrades. As hardware standards rise, the developers keep getting the very best and we stay in an arms race to buy hardware we can tolerate.
This is an ugly expense. Developers are essentially forcing the less-fortunate and more-frugal to regularly buy expensive equipment to replace stuff that hasn't even broken. This is totally unethical.
Turbine blades go shooting out all over, ripping apart anything nearby. Often this takes out hydraulic systems and rips open fuel tanks. Note that the F/A-18 engines are unusually close together. (compare with F-14 for example) I think one could easily wipe out the other. Metal fatigue is a likely cause, as well as the commonly mentioned bird strike. Wikipedia has a great list of uncontained engine failures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontained_engine_failure
IIRC, neutrino direction is detectable. Just ignore ones coming from the reactor. Energy level or type might also work to distinguish the neutrinos.
Traders already pay crazy prices to get low-latency access. The speed of light is an issue. This is especially interesting over the London to New York route, with traders paying extra for priority on a special cross-Atlantic link.
The two-hour latency for this neutrino beam is going to be from background noise. Increase the beam intensity and it goes away. I've no doubt that passing direct through the Earth is faster than going along the surface. For worst-case routes, neutrinos win by a factor of pi.
Think for a moment why colorings are added. Is it good public policy to allow this?
This is essentially false advertizing. We humans have evolved to associate various colors with some idea of "goodness", allowing us to get proper nutrition. These colors make us instinctively prefer manufactured products. This is bad for our health.
You might say "buyer beware", but that doesn't solve the problem. People suffer horrible health problems related to junkfood.
No. Well, for some vaccines. Some use chicken eggs, some use monkey tissue (kidney if I remember right), some use human tissue (lung if I remember right), and so on. Some don't use animal cells at all.
Oddly enough, the chicken pox vaccine does not use chickens. It uses an aborted baby.
Vaccines are often grown in media which is derived from aborted babies.
Because it's a tissue culture, the situation isn't quite as horrible as needing to abort babies to produce vaccines. It's just one baby, long ago.
There are plenty of people who care about this anyway. They feel that they would be supporting abortion if they ever make use of anything derived from an aborted baby.
So there you go. Religion is a protected group.
You're part of the reason that people refuse vaccines. When pro-vaccine people deny the well-proven existance of vaccine injury, they discredit themselves. Given that you are now discredited, the somewhat reasonable and very human reaction is to do just the opposite of what you want.
Seriously, can't you see how your words just scream "conspiracy"? You have NO credibility now.
Doctors and the medical community have been wrong before, and while I doubt that is the case here
If most people are getting the disease, then you'd damn well better take the lesser risk of the vaccine.
If a thousand people get the disease each year, all of whom live in northern Africa or southern Asia, the risk situation is completely different. There is no realistic chance of getting the disease. The chance of vaccine-related death or retardation becomes higher than the chance of even getting the disease, never mind getting hurt by the disease.
Where do you draw the line? This is complicated by the fact that accessable information sources are obviously compromised. On both sides you can see blind groupthink. One side has a very obvious financial motive and a huge lobbying effort.
Doctors want unquestioning obedience. They don't want their authority to be challenged.
Even if you do vaccinate your child, you'd best run from any doctor who gets rid of these patients.
BTW, some of these diseases really are quite extinct in the US. Getting infected is about as likely as getting hit by lightening. It's not unreasonable to decide that the vaccine risk (yes, there is risk) isn't worthwhile. It's not unreasonable to notice the political aspects of vaccines, with all the industry lobbying, and decide that the pro-vaccine messages are inherently untrustworthy.
You don't obey the local laws, you are banned from doing business locally
Sure. EU citizens who visit Facebook are doing business in the US.
Or do you believe that US citizens should be free to watch kiddie porn, as long as the server is located in Thailand?
If the law merely prohibited serving those images from a web server, sure. The law bans mere ownership though. Given that law, the US citizen is continuously committing a crime as long as he has the images. This shouldn't affect the server operator in Thailand, but I believe Thai law might have something to say about him. As a courtesy, one would expect the US government to assist the Thai government in enforcing Thai law against the server operator.
Are you that much of a Facebook fanboi?
I actually hate Facebook, along with the US laws I've mentioned, and I partially like the EU privacy law. I'm just objecting to the idea that the EU gets to apply EU law to a server outside the EU. US citizens don't get to vote for EU parliament members. If these laws should apply to us, then where is our representation?
If the EU gets a say, then why not Saudi Arabia?
I suppose a country does have the right to block a web site for arbitrary bullshit reasons. Let's not pretend this is anything otherwise: Facebook was not within EU jurisdiction while ignoring the EU law. The EU is strongarming facebook because they can.
There is no reason any fine should be collectable. I suppose the EU will strongarm banks in some way. What we have here is a bunch of thugs trying to extend EU law to jurisdictions outside the EU.
Two or three kids is NOT the 1950's lifestyle. More normal would be two bunkbeds in the boy room, and two bunkbeds in the girl room, plus a crib, for a total of 9. Yes it is a small house, but it's packed with mouths to feed.
The French openly admit to spying for economic reasons.
So the US should block EU websites if they won't comply with the US Patriot act, the DMCA, COPPA, 120-year copyrights, and all the rest.
I thought you wanted regular punishment, like fines. BTW, I think some of those US laws are criminal. OK if we extradite you for your failure to follow US laws whenever a US citizen goes your web site? After all, you claim that American laws should apply if you're serving web pages to American citizens in the US.
Roughly, vacation time is like a reduction in hours. Assuming 2 weeks is the current standard, you propose a 10% cut in yearly hours. This is like going to a 36-hour week. BTW this enough to really dent the economy, but nowhere near enough to put much of a dent in the unemployment.
Note that in some sense we are back to that 76 hours: most women feel unable to stay home with children. Previously this was not the norm.
We'll end up about average. I claim average is about OECD level, you think is about one of the poorest countries in the world, like Phillipines.
Poor would be Somolia, DR Congo, North Korea, Afganistan, Bolivia, Chad, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Lesoto...
The OECD members are well above average.
So EU laws should apply to US websites, but US laws shouldn't apply to EU websites? I can see why you'd like that, but it's in no way fair.
If US citizens visit news.bbc.co.uk then the BBC is, by your own logic, doing business in the US. Therefore, the BBC must obey US law. This includes the US Patriot act, the DMCA, COPPA, 120-year copyrights, and all the rest.
Seems fair, right?
You'd best hope nobody from Saudi Arabia visits your web site.
OK, look at this from the other side. Suppose I visit a web site in the EU.
Should the US Patriot act apply? Should that EU web site be required to obey a national security letter from the USA, and required to keep quiet about it? After all, you think local law is determined by where the web client is located. You OK with that?
When we have a power outage, the toilets still flush
Power or not, this hasn't been possible for many years in the USA. Modern toilets have a button that fires about a cup of high-velocity water. This isn't enough to flush, but it's enough to create a mist of microscopic poo particles. (air drafts will carry a small portion of this toward your toothbrush)
To flush, use the tub to fill a 5-gallon bucket. Pour the water into the toilet. This is how we save water.
I could go for an electric toilet. Something like a garbage disposal (as seen on kitchen sinks) could work.
First, 76 hours was difficult. You had no spare time, so people hated the situation. 40 hours has no such problem for most people. Yeah we bitch about it, and I hate it too, but 40 hours really isn't difficult. You have time to sleep, eat, shower, shop, and even post on Slashdot.
Second, England had a massive technology and capital advantage. Currently the Western world has merely a big advantage, and it's erroding quickly. You can slack off when you're so far ahead that nobody can touch you. Today if we slack off, we end up no better than some random crummy place like Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, Thailand, Indonesia, Colombia, Philippeans...