I've seen some rare footage on the internet of small folk gathering together in large numbers for some sort of mating ritual. It apparently involves balloons and clowns as well. Maybe something happened to these fossils during their mating season.
The Mac does not count because it relied on imbedded metadata in the file, rather than an outside deciding program.
Why is this so different than Windows using the extension of a file as metadata? Microsoft's way has advantages of course (being able to easily change the filetype, if you've unhidden extensions for known file types), but disadvantages as well (SalesReport.doc.vbs, anyone?)
Of course we have the freedom to make these choices, it just seemed like the OP unhappy about the amount of time he was working.
WRT incentive: How much extra incentive does a jump from ~83K take home pay(minimum based on 43% state+federal tax) to, say, ~99K take home pay (32%, no state tax) create? How about the incentive created by using the extra tax money to help the poor (even for purely selfish reasons, like keeping them from rioting)?
I guess I should have clarified: if you spend half your life at work for the money you're doing something wrong. If you love what you do and you're happy that's what's important.
A SHITTY house here costs 600k... Figure out what you need to make to finance that, and you'll figure out im prolly not living high on the hog, nor is anyone else in my position.
I'm normally not this blunt, but your rant about the people in San Bernadino makes me feel less bad about saying this: If a shitty house costs 600K, Why The Fuck are you people buying them?! Last I heard over half the houses for sale in my area were owned by investors, and about 1 out of 6 homeowners could afford to buy their houses back. Every heavily populated state has housing bubbles, and this is ours.
Anyone spending half their life at work should reassess their priorities, regardless of what society is taking from them. Is it really worth it to work that much, just so you can buy a nice house and a nice car and nice stuff that you can enjoy for two hours a day before it's time to go to sleep? Are we that far gone?
The entitlement attitude is a direct result of this country being incredibly wealthy and incredibly powerful. I don't care if you cancel every social program tomorrow, we'll still have multinational corporations launching billion dollar marketing campaigns designed to make us feel we "need" and "deserve" their products, and we'll still be stomping (politically, economically, and militarily) around the world like we owned the place.
By the way, there are quite a few countries with nationalized health care and extensive unemployment programs, and the citizens of those countries don't seem to be self-righteous whiners. I'm not advocating those programs, just trying to cast doubt on possible causal relationships they have with creating entitlement attitudes.
42%? Interesting. I make "fairly decent money" and my state income tax is about 5%. I played around with the Franchise Tax Board's tax table calculator, and couldn't get it to go over ~9.2%. Of course, my federal tax is 25%, so I'm assuming you're counting federal tax.
Combining federal tax tables and state tax tables, I'd guess your income is at least $146,000 a year (33% federal + 9% state). If you are working 10-12 hours a day you are spending too much time at work. Scale back your lifestyle a bit. I make $47,000 (working eight hours a day) and am happy doing it.
Just because I don't espouse christian beliefs doesn't mean I needed a clarification on how christians feel about souls or when life begins; even atheists and agnostics aren't as a whole ignorant of your position. I understand your stance. I just don't think Psalm 139:19, or any other biblical passage, should form by itself the basis of (secular) public policy.
Those people are people with lives and thoughts and feelings (and maybe souls if you're of that disposition). The embryos don't have (and won't ever have) lives and thoughts and feelings, and if they have souls the way fertility clinics operate is the true problem, not just whether we use them for stem cells when it's determined they won't be implanted.
I haven't decided whether it's another symptom that our mainstream media has been reduced to parroting the talking points spewed by PR groups or if it's another symptom of our increasing ignorance of what's going on in our society that people don't know what's legal and what's not(which is partially to be blame on the lawmakers, though). If I had to bet, I'd say both.
...except that sometimes that doesn't work. 7-8 years ago my parents had a line dedicated for modem use only. AT&T would call that line three or four times a week, usually around 7pm (ie dinner time). The "magic phrase" didn't deter them in the slightest, so some of the screaming and yelling and getting angry at telemarketers in general may come from similar experiences. Bad experiences are hard to forget.
Of course, I like to find the good in every situation, which in this case was answering the phone with greetings like "Thanks for calling the Psychic Hotline, but I know this is a wrong number." or "Genital Piercings R Us, would you like to hear about our special on clitoral spikes?" or "$City chapter of the Cult of Satan...". You get the picture.
I thought slashdot was finally valid HTML! For lack of a closing tag I just read the entire page in a monotone voice....
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Do you have any? If you can't come up with any original ideas, then perhaps the game developers can't either.
Pet peeve: just because I can't do something doesn't mean I can't or shouldn't critisize people who do it poorly. For example, I can say that current music is mostly derivative and bland, that politicians are corrupt and self-serving, and that the guys who installed my oven are idiots because the knobs turn the wrong way. I myself would be a horrible musician, leader, or oven-installer, but my opinion is still valid.
I bet you're one of those people who is kept awake at night by their fear of Invisible Pink Unicorns stealing our precious bodily fluids to give to gay martians.
P.S. Sorry, but it's one of my pet peeves when people don't properly respect the Invisible Pink Unicorns.
Also notice than none of that would do much against a 10 foot flood of water from a broken levee (or an equally pleasant flow of lava). I'm also guessing you weren't on food stamps, like (depending on the source) 600,000-700,000 people in Louisiana, or upwards of 13% of their population.
When the almighty force of [god|nature|FSM] comes around, self-reliance is a luxury.
So a powerful argument is one that relies on exisiting beliefs? If you can accept that there is no such thing as right or wrong, how does that argument fare? This said it better:
"No matter how common or popular our values are, it is a logical fallacy to use that fact to conclude that the concepts are more than human creations."
That probably has a lot of merit to it, and has been suggested by other posters. Basically, regeneration is nice for cold blooded reptiles that can hole up without food to allow the regenerative process to complete, but mammals need to go out and get food, so our bodies focus on closing the wound quickly and getting us back out there.
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Why don't they just Nerve Staple them?
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I've seen some rare footage on the internet of small folk gathering together in large numbers for some sort of mating ritual. It apparently involves balloons and clowns as well. Maybe something happened to these fossils during their mating season.
Of course we have the freedom to make these choices, it just seemed like the OP unhappy about the amount of time he was working.
WRT incentive: How much extra incentive does a jump from ~83K take home pay(minimum based on 43% state+federal tax) to, say, ~99K take home pay (32%, no state tax) create? How about the incentive created by using the extra tax money to help the poor (even for purely selfish reasons, like keeping them from rioting)?
I guess I should have clarified: if you spend half your life at work for the money you're doing something wrong. If you love what you do and you're happy that's what's important.
Anyone spending half their life at work should reassess their priorities, regardless of what society is taking from them. Is it really worth it to work that much, just so you can buy a nice house and a nice car and nice stuff that you can enjoy for two hours a day before it's time to go to sleep? Are we that far gone?
The entitlement attitude is a direct result of this country being incredibly wealthy and incredibly powerful. I don't care if you cancel every social program tomorrow, we'll still have multinational corporations launching billion dollar marketing campaigns designed to make us feel we "need" and "deserve" their products, and we'll still be stomping (politically, economically, and militarily) around the world like we owned the place.
By the way, there are quite a few countries with nationalized health care and extensive unemployment programs, and the citizens of those countries don't seem to be self-righteous whiners. I'm not advocating those programs, just trying to cast doubt on possible causal relationships they have with creating entitlement attitudes.
42%? Interesting. I make "fairly decent money" and my state income tax is about 5%. I played around with the Franchise Tax Board's tax table calculator, and couldn't get it to go over ~9.2%. Of course, my federal tax is 25%, so I'm assuming you're counting federal tax.
Combining federal tax tables and state tax tables, I'd guess your income is at least $146,000 a year (33% federal + 9% state). If you are working 10-12 hours a day you are spending too much time at work. Scale back your lifestyle a bit. I make $47,000 (working eight hours a day) and am happy doing it.
Just because I don't espouse christian beliefs doesn't mean I needed a clarification on how christians feel about souls or when life begins; even atheists and agnostics aren't as a whole ignorant of your position. I understand your stance. I just don't think Psalm 139:19, or any other biblical passage, should form by itself the basis of (secular) public policy.
Those people are people with lives and thoughts and feelings (and maybe souls if you're of that disposition). The embryos don't have (and won't ever have) lives and thoughts and feelings, and if they have souls the way fertility clinics operate is the true problem, not just whether we use them for stem cells when it's determined they won't be implanted.
I haven't decided whether it's another symptom that our mainstream media has been reduced to parroting the talking points spewed by PR groups or if it's another symptom of our increasing ignorance of what's going on in our society that people don't know what's legal and what's not(which is partially to be blame on the lawmakers, though). If I had to bet, I'd say both.
...except that sometimes that doesn't work. 7-8 years ago my parents had a line dedicated for modem use only. AT&T would call that line three or four times a week, usually around 7pm (ie dinner time). The "magic phrase" didn't deter them in the slightest, so some of the screaming and yelling and getting angry at telemarketers in general may come from similar experiences. Bad experiences are hard to forget.
Of course, I like to find the good in every situation, which in this case was answering the phone with greetings like "Thanks for calling the Psychic Hotline, but I know this is a wrong number." or "Genital Piercings R Us, would you like to hear about our special on clitoral spikes?" or "$City chapter of the Cult of Satan...". You get the picture.
I thought slashdot was finally valid HTML! For lack of a closing tag I just read the entire page in a monotone voice....
I think it was artist Paul Steed. Source
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Hi, Bob! It's me, Barry Seagate! Want to grab a bite to eat?
I bet you're one of those people who is kept awake at night by their fear of Invisible Pink Unicorns stealing our precious bodily fluids to give to gay martians.
P.S. Sorry, but it's one of my pet peeves when people don't properly respect the Invisible Pink Unicorns.
Also notice than none of that would do much against a 10 foot flood of water from a broken levee (or an equally pleasant flow of lava). I'm also guessing you weren't on food stamps, like (depending on the source) 600,000-700,000 people in Louisiana, or upwards of 13% of their population.
When the almighty force of [god|nature|FSM] comes around, self-reliance is a luxury.
Or you could see if you grow back bigger...it'd be like rolling a character in a D&D game...keep rolling until you get the biggest attributes!
That probably has a lot of merit to it, and has been suggested by other posters. Basically, regeneration is nice for cold blooded reptiles that can hole up without food to allow the regenerative process to complete, but mammals need to go out and get food, so our bodies focus on closing the wound quickly and getting us back out there.
If you watch the video, you see she's close to the wall when she comes in. It's possible she hit her head.