While I realize that some radioactive fallout can have half-lives into decades or even hundreds of years, I never got the idea that this meant that an effected area would actually be uninhabitable for that long. Doesn't rainwater wash a lot of this stuff into particular concentrated areas and underground over time? Seems like the area would just end up, in a relatively short period of time, with mostly habitable land with a few "hotspots" to avoid. I mean, those radioactive particles are eventually going to end up buried under topsoil even if they stay in one place.
I generally hate any game products from Japanese countries, since they're such nationalistic/xenophobic and conformist society (Japan always gets all the releases first, every game is on-rails with the same lame anime style, and so on). But I did buy a PS1 (because I hate Nintendo even more than Sony) and a PS4 (because MS made all the wrong moves in the early days of the XboxOne). So that says SOMETHING about the quality of their consoles.
So how fast should you drive on a road with deer crossings?
Ideally, slow enough that it you hit one head on, you don't die with them. Alternatively, judge the value of your life and the odds of hitting a deer, then weigh it against how badly you want to get to that Lynyrd Skynyrd concert on time, and drive accordingly.
And which part of the road never has deer crossings?
I imagine they're pretty rare in downtown Manhattan.
As long as the accident doesn't involve another innocent driver, I don't really have a problem with it. If Joe Dipshit (or anyone dumb enough to ride with Joe Dipshit) wants to do 100 mph on a road prone to deer crossing, that's just fine with me. I do feel sorry for the poor coroner who has to mop him up, though.
Yeah, except any any storage benefit the grid gets from electric car batteries will be FAR, FAR, FAR outweighed by the tremendous strain they'll put on the system as everyone stops powering their 2-ton cars with electricity instead of gasoline. The system is already strained as it is. Can you imagine what it would look like if 50% of people in the U.S. suddenly all decided to dump their gas cars for electrics? I'm not saying electric cars are a bad idea, mind you. I'm just saying that our current generation capacity isn't even close to ready to handle the significant adoption of them.
I dare say that 99% of the countries in the world openly engage in some form of favoritism for their own citizens or government protectionism with regards to trade or employment. Why should the U.S. be the only country that doesn't do this? Are we so self-loathing and anti-patriotic now that the very idea of putting America and Americans first has become a dirty concept?
Thanks for your taxes and dedication, citizen. But we can't give you any special treatment over any random non-citizen from anywhere in the world. But again, thanks for the taxes.
Yeah, but it sure will mean a lot to billionaire CEO's--the exact people who need it the LEAST (and who are exporting all the jobs and using the most indentured servants in the first place).
And they'd still be claiming a "shortage" because they cannot find the talent they need at the price they want to pay.
Yeah, amazingly enough, it turns out there is a surprising shortage of American STEM professionals willing to work as indentured servants for $25,000/yr.
The tech CEO's also maintain the fiction that H1B workers are treated fairly and paid "market standard" salaries. Well, first of all, the "market standard" is artificially lowered by all the H1B's themselves (and the Americans that they don't have to hire at a higher salary instead). And, as for "fair treatment," just try to introduce a bill to change the H1B program to set the visas to a set time limit instead of an individual job (meaning employers will no longer be able to threaten workers with deportation if they quit or get fired)--and just listen to Zuckerberg, Schmindt, and all these other scumbag CEO's howl about how this shouldn't be changed. "Fair treatment" = "indentured servitude" in their minds.
Oh there's a shortage. There's a shortage of STEM jobs with ADEQUATE SALARIES. When Zuckerberg and others are up there on Capital Hill begging for more H1B visas, what they're saying is "There is a shortage of STEM workers." But what they MEAN is "There is a shortage of STEM workers willing to work for slave wages."
I'm pretty sure you could walk up to any old person in any country at any time in history, ask them what they think of the younger generation, and get the same basic answer. Even Plato and Jesus complained about the younger generation.
In the other hand, they keep their government in check and take the streets at the hint of an real or perceived BS coming from it
Yeah, except that hasn't really produced a better country. It just means a lot more headaches for the people living there and having to deal with periodic riots.
Yes, sometimes proposing a new currency to replace the dollar will turn people into rapists. Happens all the time. Hey, maybe something similar happened with Assange. Leaking U.S. classified information transformed him into a vicious sexual predator.
Fucking with the U.S. government is kind of like a werewolf bite, I guess. One minute an upstanding citizen, fuck with U.S. government, next thing you know you're raping every strange woman who shows up at your hotel room door offering sex.
This wasn't a rape, it was a CIA setup. Anyone remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief who made the tragic mistake of challenging the U.S. dollar? A few months aftr he started proposing a new global currency to replace the dollar, he suddenly became a rapist. They dragged him off a plane in New York in handcuffs and everything. Prosecutor announced it was a rock solid case. His political career was destroyed, he was ousted as IMF head. Then exactly three days after his successor at the IMF was sworn in, suddenly the prosecutor dropped the charges and admitted that the case was bogus.
Character assassination it *SO* much easier than assassination with a bullet. I'm just surprised that Edward Snowden hasn't been accused of being a child molester yet.
Disagreeing with the ideology of a particular group of women and men is NOT "attacking women." You don't get to label everyone who disagrees with your particular ideology as a misogynist just because you don't dig what they have to say.
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While I realize that some radioactive fallout can have half-lives into decades or even hundreds of years, I never got the idea that this meant that an effected area would actually be uninhabitable for that long. Doesn't rainwater wash a lot of this stuff into particular concentrated areas and underground over time? Seems like the area would just end up, in a relatively short period of time, with mostly habitable land with a few "hotspots" to avoid. I mean, those radioactive particles are eventually going to end up buried under topsoil even if they stay in one place.
I generally hate any game products from Japanese countries, since they're such nationalistic/xenophobic and conformist society (Japan always gets all the releases first, every game is on-rails with the same lame anime style, and so on). But I did buy a PS1 (because I hate Nintendo even more than Sony) and a PS4 (because MS made all the wrong moves in the early days of the XboxOne). So that says SOMETHING about the quality of their consoles.
So how fast should you drive on a road with deer crossings?
Ideally, slow enough that it you hit one head on, you don't die with them. Alternatively, judge the value of your life and the odds of hitting a deer, then weigh it against how badly you want to get to that Lynyrd Skynyrd concert on time, and drive accordingly.
And which part of the road never has deer crossings?
I imagine they're pretty rare in downtown Manhattan.
Then the gas crunch came around and to save gas they implemented 55MPH.
Thank god Sammy Hagar saved us from that nightmare era.
As long as the accident doesn't involve another innocent driver, I don't really have a problem with it. If Joe Dipshit (or anyone dumb enough to ride with Joe Dipshit) wants to do 100 mph on a road prone to deer crossing, that's just fine with me. I do feel sorry for the poor coroner who has to mop him up, though.
Please be serious, time travel is not possible, even with the DeLorean.
Actually, I'm pretty sure anyone still driving a Delorean is a time-traveler from the early 80's.
It's Montana. What are they going to hit, an elk? It's not like there are any people there.
Yeah, except any any storage benefit the grid gets from electric car batteries will be FAR, FAR, FAR outweighed by the tremendous strain they'll put on the system as everyone stops powering their 2-ton cars with electricity instead of gasoline. The system is already strained as it is. Can you imagine what it would look like if 50% of people in the U.S. suddenly all decided to dump their gas cars for electrics? I'm not saying electric cars are a bad idea, mind you. I'm just saying that our current generation capacity isn't even close to ready to handle the significant adoption of them.
I dare say that 99% of the countries in the world openly engage in some form of favoritism for their own citizens or government protectionism with regards to trade or employment. Why should the U.S. be the only country that doesn't do this? Are we so self-loathing and anti-patriotic now that the very idea of putting America and Americans first has become a dirty concept?
Thanks for your taxes and dedication, citizen. But we can't give you any special treatment over any random non-citizen from anywhere in the world. But again, thanks for the taxes.
A 50% tax cut on zero income isn't worth much
Yeah, but it sure will mean a lot to billionaire CEO's--the exact people who need it the LEAST (and who are exporting all the jobs and using the most indentured servants in the first place).
And they'd still be claiming a "shortage" because they cannot find the talent they need at the price they want to pay.
Yeah, amazingly enough, it turns out there is a surprising shortage of American STEM professionals willing to work as indentured servants for $25,000/yr.
The tech CEO's also maintain the fiction that H1B workers are treated fairly and paid "market standard" salaries. Well, first of all, the "market standard" is artificially lowered by all the H1B's themselves (and the Americans that they don't have to hire at a higher salary instead). And, as for "fair treatment," just try to introduce a bill to change the H1B program to set the visas to a set time limit instead of an individual job (meaning employers will no longer be able to threaten workers with deportation if they quit or get fired)--and just listen to Zuckerberg, Schmindt, and all these other scumbag CEO's howl about how this shouldn't be changed. "Fair treatment" = "indentured servitude" in their minds.
Oh there's a shortage. There's a shortage of STEM jobs with ADEQUATE SALARIES. When Zuckerberg and others are up there on Capital Hill begging for more H1B visas, what they're saying is "There is a shortage of STEM workers." But what they MEAN is "There is a shortage of STEM workers willing to work for slave wages."
The study, which used a novel method of tracking people through data from the social media site LinkedIn
found that just 13 percent of migrating professionals in the sample group chose the U.S. as a destination in 2012, down from 27 percent in 2000.
Pretty impressive finding results from LinkedIn back in 2000, considering it didn't launch until 2003.
Don't worry, they've heard your complaints and have decided to rename it the "Titanic," because of its generously spacious interior.
I'm pretty sure you could walk up to any old person in any country at any time in history, ask them what they think of the younger generation, and get the same basic answer. Even Plato and Jesus complained about the younger generation.
In the other hand, they keep their government in check and take the streets at the hint of an real or perceived BS coming from it
Yeah, except that hasn't really produced a better country. It just means a lot more headaches for the people living there and having to deal with periodic riots.
"And so girls, you too can be computer programmers, just like Anna and Elsa!"
[little boy raises his hand] "Can *I* be a computer programmer too?"
"SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP, OPPRESSOR!!"
... teaching the cops how not to alienate the people?
Or teaching criminals to stop shooting at cops?
Quit RIDING MY ASS, Jim!
And you'll note the date on that article: July 5, 2011.
I wonder what else happened on July 5, 2011. Oh yeah, I remember now.
Yes, sometimes proposing a new currency to replace the dollar will turn people into rapists. Happens all the time. Hey, maybe something similar happened with Assange. Leaking U.S. classified information transformed him into a vicious sexual predator.
Fucking with the U.S. government is kind of like a werewolf bite, I guess. One minute an upstanding citizen, fuck with U.S. government, next thing you know you're raping every strange woman who shows up at your hotel room door offering sex.
This wasn't a rape, it was a CIA setup. Anyone remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief who made the tragic mistake of challenging the U.S. dollar? A few months aftr he started proposing a new global currency to replace the dollar, he suddenly became a rapist. They dragged him off a plane in New York in handcuffs and everything. Prosecutor announced it was a rock solid case. His political career was destroyed, he was ousted as IMF head. Then exactly three days after his successor at the IMF was sworn in, suddenly the prosecutor dropped the charges and admitted that the case was bogus.
Character assassination it *SO* much easier than assassination with a bullet. I'm just surprised that Edward Snowden hasn't been accused of being a child molester yet.
Disagreeing with the ideology of a particular group of women and men is NOT "attacking women." You don't get to label everyone who disagrees with your particular ideology as a misogynist just because you don't dig what they have to say.
If only we could all be so noble as brilliant as white knights like you.