The official unemployment rate of 9.5 percent does not take into account so-called "discouraged" workers who have given up looking for a job and those forced to work part-time because they cannot get full-time employment. According to the Labor Department report, when these workers are included, the jobless rate soars to 16.5 percent.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that this figure is "above a discontinued and even broader measure that hit 15 percent in late 1982, when the official unemployment rate was 10.8 percent." The Journal added that "... comparisons to the Great Depression (when 25 percent of Americans were out of work) may not look so wild, even if overall economic activity is holding up better."
The US has lost 6.5 million jobs since the recession officially began in December of 2007. All growth in jobs over the last nine years has now been wiped out, and there are fewer jobs in the US today than in May 2000, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
So, the economy has given up all growth in the first decade of this century, is less than 10% away from matching the Great Depression in terms of unemployed... many states and cities are insolvent, the US fed credit rating is in danger, banks and manufacturers are going bust left and right, the median house sale price in Detroit is under $8 grand, there are millions of people who are in default on their mortgages... the economy has collapsed.
Incompentence (sic) is not a crime, but instigating a false accusation, especially falsely accusing individuals of a crime, is. At least it is in civil court.
No, it's not a crime in civil court. Civil courts are for, among other things, torts, but not for crimes; criminal courts only. OJ Simpson was successfully sued in civil court for a tort, not a crime.
Tort law is a body of law that addresses, and provides remedies for, civil wrongs not arising out of contractual obligations.[1] A person who suffers legal damages may be able to use tort law to receive compensation from someone who is legally responsible, or liable, for those injuries. Generally speaking, tort law defines what constitutes a legal injury and establishes the circumstances under which one person may be held liable for another's injury. Torts cover intentional acts and accidents. In contrast to criminal law (in which the offense is against the State and the State is the plaintiff), in tort law, the offense is against a person and that person is the plaintiff.
I think that's implied. I mean, who still burns non-rewritable CDs/DVDs? The regular ones have only downsides, except for a very slight price difference.
WTF - you've got a Mobus DISK??? - all the disks I've seen have both a down side and an up side. A disk that had only a downside would be able to store twice as much data... where do I get them?
You do realise (sic) that if people didn't do any jobs unless they really loved doing them, then the entire economy collapse
Guess you didn't notice that the entire economy DID collapse, and that it was caused by people who did the jobs they really loved doing (fucking over everyone else for big bucks at investment firms, avoiding real work by becoming a house flipper, etc.) - not the average joe who did the real work.
I worked a couple of months between semesters once on a production line that was taking shrink wrapped cartoons of cigarettes, opening them and putting them into smaller promotional packages that were then shrink wrapped. No one could have possibly enjoyed that work, and it certainly wasn't benefiting humanity.
That's because you were doing it WRONG! You should have been inserting small "chicken-fart" firecrackers at random (actually chemically-treated slivers of wood) into them at random. People who claim that "smoking calms their nerves" would quickly develop a different attitude if they were to have one blow up in their face at random times.
By doing remapping of the character fonts to other glyphs (which ca be done in real time on a cell-by-cell basis) you're not limited to text. You also can remap the alternate set (all video cards support at least 2 complete character maps of 256 characters each, so you have 512 glyphs or sprites to play with. Users never need to know that it's "really" text.
Of course it's common sense - which is why it won't be done that way. It's the "OMG you expect users to figure this out?" shit.
Sounds like someone never heard of 'target="new"' to force the external link to open in a new tab so that the user doesn't go "where did my f*ing internal wiki page go to?"
... which explains why they never succeeded before - dumb users, and dump "implementors", and not even the basic understanding of how things work.
It's a tool that allows the person administering it to better understand the mental state of the person they're dealing with in a way that doesn't allow them to employ the usual defensive responses. I
BS. Anyone with a brain and the right incentive can work around the "usual defensive responses" crap. It's not exactly a "deep" test.
I hope someone you love balloons out and dies of a stroke, you insensitive clod.
If they eat too much, balloon up and die of a stroke, that's a lifestyle disease death, same as smoking... there's no justification for either behaviour.
40 ways to tell that you might be fat enough that you're at risk of dying from swine flu
You know you're fat when Sarah Palin says she can see you from her front porch.
You know you're fat when the funeral home refuses your cremation pre-arrangement plan because you'd generate too much creosote.
You know you're fat when elevators don't, because they can't.
You know you're fat when you complain about how BMI is totally inaccurate.
You know you're fat when you wear sandals because you can't reach down to put on socks.
You know you're fat when people can see you on google maps - and you're REALLY fat when you're geo-coded.
You know you're fat when going to the toilet disturbs the GPS system.
You know you're fat when you're suntanning and people ask where the smell of bacon is coming from.
You know you're fat when your bellybutton changes from an insie to an outsie, and you can't tell if it's bigger than your penis because you haven't seen your penis since 9/11.
You know you're fat when you finally get some sex, and you have to tell the guy "wrong hole"... and you're referring to your bellybutton.
You know you're fat when FEMA designates you as a portable levee.
You know you're fat when astrologers start assigning you phases.
You know you're REALLY fat when astronomers start assigning you phases.
You know you're fat when you notice "Kilroy was here" was spray-painted on your ass... 5 years ago.
You know you're fat when you go to Omar the Tentmaker for your shirts.
You know you're REALLY fat when Omar the Tentmaker stops taking your calls for a new shirt.
You know you're fat when you wear a green-and-white striped shirt and people start taking pictures of you for Guiness Worlds Largest Watermelon.
You know you're fat when you get a job down at the docks - not as a dock-worker, but as a dock.
You know you're fat when you can't see in the sun because of the glare off your chubby cheeks.
You know you're fat when you begin racking up base jumper fatalities.
You know you're fat when CBS, NBC, and ABC all lease space on you for repeater towers.
You know you're fat when terrorists try to crash an airplane into you.
You know you're fat when you walk and you make that corduroy rubbing together sound - but you're naked.
You know you're fat when people start searching your skin folds for spare change.
You know you're fat when there are no more all-you-can-eat buffets in town because you bankrupted them.
You know you're fat when you have your own micro-climate.
You know you're fat when Jackie Chan uses you as a movie set.
You know you're fat when even Chuck Norris can't fell you with a roundhouse kick.
You know you're fat when you can't use a stand-up urinal because your stomach gets in the way.
You know you're fat when you can't use a toilet because your back fat won't let you sit on the throne.
You know you're fat when you can't read a newspaper in the toilet because you block out the light.
You know you're fat when you're the cargo in one of those "biggest payload in it's class" commercials.
You know you're fat when, instead of tampax, you just use a roll of Charmin.
You know you're fat when you're 8 months pregnant, and people still can't tell the difference.
You know you're fat when squirrels nest in your bellybutton.
You know you're fat when mold grows on one side of you.
Nice how you still avoid the whole issue of Palin allowing an unwed daughter to fornicate in her home. Whatever happened to the admonishon to avoid even the appearance of evil? Doesn't apply to republicans with feet of clay? THAT is why we think fundies are stupid - they can't even see their own hypocrisy.
BTW - The King James Version is one of the least credible versions of the bible - it traces its' lineage through what are known as the Byzantine family of texts, which only go back to the 9th century.
You'd at least want something from the Alexandrian or Cesarean lineages, which go back much further - but of course they weren't rediscovered until well after the fools who place so much import on "Thee and Thou" vs. "You", failing to realize that it's no more significant than "vous" vs. "tu" en francais. Or going on about how some parts were written in all-caps, not realizing that lowercase didn't even exist at the time, and that it was all caps.
Then again, anyone who couldn't parse out the NT from the greek would just shut their pie-hole, since they'd get a fail anyway.
Unlike the bible, science allows us to construct a theory then test it by direct observation. We have a theory of evolution, it allows us to make predictions. Those predictions have been validated, so we have reason to believe in the theory of evolution. What predictions have people been able to make based on the bible have come true? None. The end of the world was supposed to happen in the first century AD. Then the 900s. Then in 2000. (and a whole bunch of intervening times). Those "end times" sure have stretched out a lot...
Then again, what do you expect from a book that commands genocide, murder, slavery, rape, human sacrifice, and the worship of the "god" who commands all that. The bible is hate literature. Sane societies teach it as something to condemn, not worship. Within 100 years, it, and christianity in general, will be just a minor cult followed by the most impoverished, backwards societies.
It isn't killing them disproportionally - it's killing them in direct relationship to their proportions:-)
is that something to smile about?
If only there were a virus would kill in proportion to how big an asshole you are.
Sorry, the fat people would still be killed off in direct proportion - after all, they need the super-sized asshole to pass the super-sized turds from their super-sized meals:-)
Look, I can sell you a tape for a buck that will help you lose weight. It's not a video tape. It's not an audio tape. It's duct tape - you just put it over your mouth.
It's true that inside every fat person is a thin person just dying to get out - the fat person ate him for a snack.
BMI is an incorrect way to deteremine a persons immunity defense and state. A immunity, white blood and t-cell count is the correct way.
Whether they're DEAD (like in the article) is the correct way. The article never said BMI was the way to determine whether their immune systems worked or not.
Nah, they're going to blame it on the economy - you know... inflation.
Or they'll just say that it's environmental - they live in the South
Why Are Southerners So Fat?
People from Mississippi are fat. With an adult obesity rate of 33%, Mississippi has gobbled its way to the "chubbiest state" crown for the fifth year in a row, according to a new joint report by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Alabama, West Virginia and Tennessee aren't far behind, with obesity rates over 30%. In fact, eight of the 10 fattest states are in the South.
Another example of how you are what you eat... and another reason to keep your BMI below 25.
The BMI is a useful tool in the sense that it helps get people to actually discuss the issue. Of course, the real test is with calipers. Can you "pinch an inch?" If so, you're carrying excess fat. If you have to use the jaws of life to remove the calipers, you're obese. If the calipers strike oil, you're a Southener.
New minor variations over a small period of years can obviously lead to major variations over millions of years - or do you believe that genes will somehow automatically return to some baseline if they change too much - because that's the alternative, and there's no evidence to support it.
The bible is provably false - just fucking google for it. Prime example that the fundies keep on pushing today - the condemnation of gays and lesbians as perverts. I've heard preachers making fools of themselves by saying from the pulpit that man is the only animal to engage in same-sex relationships - like they never saw a male dog try to hump their leg in their life. The list of mammals that are known to engage in same-sex relationships is in the hundreds, and we've only begun to start looking.
Or the biblical claim that the flood covered the entire face of the earth. There's no evidence of any flood covering all the surface of the earth simultaneously during mankinds' existence. A universal water coverage of the planet would have created a runaway global warming - we'd be like Venus today. And the freshwater fish would have died off after being mixed in the salty ocean for over a year - and you can't say they evolved, since you don't believe in that.
Or the treatment of disease: God's law for lepers: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one. Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird fly off. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally kill a couple doves and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. Do you really believe that works?
Or this: Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. God doesn't know that insects have 6 legs, not 4. What a moron.
Or ""Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." You believe in witches? Hahahahaha! Watch out for that black cat!
More absurdities: Women are not to wear men's clothing -- it's an "abomination unto the Lord." Gee, better get women out of those nice-fitting jeans. They'll tempt you. And you'll get confused, because you're tempted, and start going after anything in jeans - even men! What hogwash.
then there's this gem from you:
As for Palin, the girl was 17, she is an adult by all accounts other then legal stature in some states.
Your own words - not a woman, but a girl. And what about the whole "sex is wrong and a sin outside of marriage" thing? That somehow magically disappears because it's inconvenient?
Speaking of women, Mary had to be "purified" after giving birth to Jesus. Guess she defiled by giving birth to the Son of God, hmmm? So Jesus is a contaminant, like toxic waste. On second thought, I can see it - Jesus the Contaminator.
More Neanderthal thinking: Wives must submit to their husbands "in every thing" as though they were Christ. "For the husband is the head of the wife." Yeah, right... how's that working for ya?
As for your defense of the hypocrites preaching one thing and doing another, it just shows that prayer doesn't work. God didn't keep them from "sinning." Why? Because god can't hear them - he doesn't exist. Now as to the "so what, I don't make fun of you when..." atheists don't claim to believe that there's a god who is there who can guide them, etc. we take personal responsibility for our acts, rather than going "the devil made me do it." It's the hypocrisy of the religious that is galling, not the underlying act - their claim that they are somehow different because "they are with god." Or "saved." And yet they're still
I used both:-) I called them useful fools, and tools, because they ARE both. Then a poster tried to say I was incorrect, and should have used the expression "useful idiots". Intelligent people can still be fools and tools, but idiots are just idiots.
We see evidence of evolution over even small intervals of time - or have you missed the latest version of swine flu?
Also, whether there are transcription errors in the bible is a moot point - the bible is provably false in many of it's declarations, and as such, can safely be ignored.
As for the big bang, there's proof it actually occurred. This proof contradicts the biblical account of creation. As for what came before, science doesn't make any claim - the bible does, and its' claim is full of shit, like the rest of it.
If a scientist repeatedly comes out with irreproducable and/or tainted, results, we scrap all his data. It's the same standard as the bible - too many errors, so it should all be scrapped.
As for ridiculing people for believing the bible - why not? Look at the failure of "faith-based family values". Sarah Palin let her kid sleep with her boyfriend in her home. Probably figured "can't lock the barn door after the horse has left"... but all that only came out after the campaign was over. F*ing hypocrites, the bunch of them.
Or all the religious leaders who get caught in one sex scandal after another, even though they've claimed for years that God guides them, and that they believe in the power of prayer, and that their faith keeps them strong. They're bad jokes, self-deluded narcissists, and blind to their own hypocrisy.
Believe what you want - that's your right. Just don't get scammed by the con artists and snake-oil salesmen running the collection plate racket at your local church, TV "ministry", or radio "outreach." They're in it for the money and the power.
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So, the economy has given up all growth in the first decade of this century, is less than 10% away from matching the Great Depression in terms of unemployed ... many states and cities are insolvent, the US fed credit rating is in danger, banks and manufacturers are going bust left and right, the median house sale price in Detroit is under $8 grand, there are millions of people who are in default on their mortgages ... the economy has collapsed.
Incompentence (sic) is not a crime, but instigating a false accusation, especially falsely accusing individuals of a crime, is. At least it is in civil court.
No, it's not a crime in civil court. Civil courts are for, among other things, torts, but not for crimes; criminal courts only. OJ Simpson was successfully sued in civil court for a tort, not a crime.
WTF - you've got a Mobus DISK??? - all the disks I've seen have both a down side and an up side. A disk that had only a downside would be able to store twice as much data ... where do I get them?
Guess you didn't notice that the entire economy DID collapse, and that it was caused by people who did the jobs they really loved doing (fucking over everyone else for big bucks at investment firms, avoiding real work by becoming a house flipper, etc.) - not the average joe who did the real work.
Really? How about this list:
Shit - I'm already up to 56 hours a DAY! No wonder I don't have any free time!
That's because you were doing it WRONG! You should have been inserting small "chicken-fart" firecrackers at random (actually chemically-treated slivers of wood) into them at random. People who claim that "smoking calms their nerves" would quickly develop a different attitude if they were to have one blow up in their face at random times.
The same one where (FTFS) Billy Mays - the "But wait -- there's more!" guy is still alive.
I finally had a chance to see the ribbon bar in Word/Excel/etc. last week - I didn't think it was possible to screw up a good idea that badly ...
It was easier to just download openoffice and get the user running again than it was to try to help them figure it out.
Obvious answer: If they're as retarded as the person posting the question ...
Seriously, if the user can't figure out how to open 2 sites in 2 tabs, a "merged wiki" should be low on you list of priorities.
I see what you did!
By doing remapping of the character fonts to other glyphs (which ca be done in real time on a cell-by-cell basis) you're not limited to text. You also can remap the alternate set (all video cards support at least 2 complete character maps of 256 characters each, so you have 512 glyphs or sprites to play with. Users never need to know that it's "really" text.
Sounds like someone never heard of 'target="new"' to force the external link to open in a new tab so that the user doesn't go "where did my f*ing internal wiki page go to?"
So use unicode ...
Or dynamically remap the fonts (like in PCTools 7x "graphics" text mode, or the CA-Clipper Toolkit).
BS. Anyone with a brain and the right incentive can work around the "usual defensive responses" crap. It's not exactly a "deep" test.
WTF are they running that electricity is costing $200/month? That must be one bad-ass 65" plasma TV. I thought you said they were poor?
There's no reason to eat just crap on $32k/year in a poor state where costs and taxes are lower than the more expensive states.
If they eat too much, balloon up and die of a stroke, that's a lifestyle disease death, same as smoking ... there's no justification for either behaviour.
40 ways to tell that you might be fat enough that you're at risk of dying from swine flu
Nice how you still avoid the whole issue of Palin allowing an unwed daughter to fornicate in her home. Whatever happened to the admonishon to avoid even the appearance of evil? Doesn't apply to republicans with feet of clay? THAT is why we think fundies are stupid - they can't even see their own hypocrisy.
BTW - The King James Version is one of the least credible versions of the bible - it traces its' lineage through what are known as the Byzantine family of texts, which only go back to the 9th century.
You'd at least want something from the Alexandrian or Cesarean lineages, which go back much further - but of course they weren't rediscovered until well after the fools who place so much import on "Thee and Thou" vs. "You", failing to realize that it's no more significant than "vous" vs. "tu" en francais. Or going on about how some parts were written in all-caps, not realizing that lowercase didn't even exist at the time, and that it was all caps.
Then again, anyone who couldn't parse out the NT from the greek would just shut their pie-hole, since they'd get a fail anyway.
Unlike the bible, science allows us to construct a theory then test it by direct observation. We have a theory of evolution, it allows us to make predictions. Those predictions have been validated, so we have reason to believe in the theory of evolution. What predictions have people been able to make based on the bible have come true? None. The end of the world was supposed to happen in the first century AD. Then the 900s. Then in 2000. (and a whole bunch of intervening times). Those "end times" sure have stretched out a lot ...
Then again, what do you expect from a book that commands genocide, murder, slavery, rape, human sacrifice, and the worship of the "god" who commands all that. The bible is hate literature. Sane societies teach it as something to condemn, not worship. Within 100 years, it, and christianity in general, will be just a minor cult followed by the most impoverished, backwards societies.
Sorry, the fat people would still be killed off in direct proportion - after all, they need the super-sized asshole to pass the super-sized turds from their super-sized meals :-)
Look, I can sell you a tape for a buck that will help you lose weight. It's not a video tape. It's not an audio tape. It's duct tape - you just put it over your mouth.
It's true that inside every fat person is a thin person just dying to get out - the fat person ate him for a snack.
Good thing that swine flu isn't democratic - there are more fatso's around than skinny models.
Now, since swine flu kills fat slobs, we could say that it's actually anti-entropic (fewer slobs around == less disorganization == lower entropy)
Lower entropy means more energy potentially available to be converted to work ...
Swine Flu is the new perpetual energy source!
Whether they're DEAD (like in the article) is the correct way. The article never said BMI was the way to determine whether their immune systems worked or not.
It kills people who eat like pigs.
It isn't killing them disproportionally - it's killing them in direct relationship to their proportions :-)
Nah, they're going to blame it on the economy - you know ... inflation.
Or they'll just say that it's environmental - they live in the South
Another example of how you are what you eat ... and another reason to keep your BMI below 25.
The BMI is a useful tool in the sense that it helps get people to actually discuss the issue. Of course, the real test is with calipers. Can you "pinch an inch?" If so, you're carrying excess fat. If you have to use the jaws of life to remove the calipers, you're obese. If the calipers strike oil, you're a Southener.
New minor variations over a small period of years can obviously lead to major variations over millions of years - or do you believe that genes will somehow automatically return to some baseline if they change too much - because that's the alternative, and there's no evidence to support it.
The bible is provably false - just fucking google for it. Prime example that the fundies keep on pushing today - the condemnation of gays and lesbians as perverts. I've heard preachers making fools of themselves by saying from the pulpit that man is the only animal to engage in same-sex relationships - like they never saw a male dog try to hump their leg in their life. The list of mammals that are known to engage in same-sex relationships is in the hundreds, and we've only begun to start looking.
Or the biblical claim that the flood covered the entire face of the earth. There's no evidence of any flood covering all the surface of the earth simultaneously during mankinds' existence. A universal water coverage of the planet would have created a runaway global warming - we'd be like Venus today. And the freshwater fish would have died off after being mixed in the salty ocean for over a year - and you can't say they evolved, since you don't believe in that.
Or the treatment of disease: God's law for lepers: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one. Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird fly off. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally kill a couple doves and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. Do you really believe that works?
Or this: Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. God doesn't know that insects have 6 legs, not 4. What a moron.
Or ""Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." You believe in witches? Hahahahaha! Watch out for that black cat!
More absurdities: Women are not to wear men's clothing -- it's an "abomination unto the Lord." Gee, better get women out of those nice-fitting jeans. They'll tempt you. And you'll get confused, because you're tempted, and start going after anything in jeans - even men! What hogwash.
then there's this gem from you:
Your own words - not a woman, but a girl. And what about the whole "sex is wrong and a sin outside of marriage" thing? That somehow magically disappears because it's inconvenient?
Speaking of women, Mary had to be "purified" after giving birth to Jesus. Guess she defiled by giving birth to the Son of God, hmmm? So Jesus is a contaminant, like toxic waste. On second thought, I can see it - Jesus the Contaminator.
More Neanderthal thinking: Wives must submit to their husbands "in every thing" as though they were Christ. "For the husband is the head of the wife." Yeah, right ... how's that working for ya?
As for your defense of the hypocrites preaching one thing and doing another, it just shows that prayer doesn't work. God didn't keep them from "sinning." Why? Because god can't hear them - he doesn't exist. Now as to the "so what, I don't make fun of you when ..." atheists don't claim to believe that there's a god who is there who can guide them, etc. we take personal responsibility for our acts, rather than going "the devil made me do it." It's the hypocrisy of the religious that is galling, not the underlying act - their claim that they are somehow different because "they are with god." Or "saved." And yet they're still
I used both :-) I called them useful fools, and tools, because they ARE both. Then a poster tried to say I was incorrect, and should have used the expression "useful idiots". Intelligent people can still be fools and tools, but idiots are just idiots.
We see evidence of evolution over even small intervals of time - or have you missed the latest version of swine flu?
Also, whether there are transcription errors in the bible is a moot point - the bible is provably false in many of it's declarations, and as such, can safely be ignored.
As for the big bang, there's proof it actually occurred. This proof contradicts the biblical account of creation. As for what came before, science doesn't make any claim - the bible does, and its' claim is full of shit, like the rest of it.
If a scientist repeatedly comes out with irreproducable and/or tainted, results, we scrap all his data. It's the same standard as the bible - too many errors, so it should all be scrapped.
As for ridiculing people for believing the bible - why not? Look at the failure of "faith-based family values". Sarah Palin let her kid sleep with her boyfriend in her home. Probably figured "can't lock the barn door after the horse has left" ... but all that only came out after the campaign was over. F*ing hypocrites, the bunch of them.
Or all the religious leaders who get caught in one sex scandal after another, even though they've claimed for years that God guides them, and that they believe in the power of prayer, and that their faith keeps them strong. They're bad jokes, self-deluded narcissists, and blind to their own hypocrisy.
Believe what you want - that's your right. Just don't get scammed by the con artists and snake-oil salesmen running the collection plate racket at your local church, TV "ministry", or radio "outreach." They're in it for the money and the power.