Granted moving takes money if you take all of your possessions with you, but as someone who has moved while broke I know for a fact you can move anywhere in the union with little to no money to your name, it's just a question of motivation and willingness to make sacrifices.
... since this was a question of moving because of schools, you're okay with parents risking their kids going hungry or being without shelter because you "know for a fact you can move anywhere in the union with little or no money to your name"?
Anyone who tries to move with "little or no money", a.k.a. limited or no resources, risks having their kids end up as wards of the state they move to. Of course, you could also cut back on child protective services, since this is an "obvious disincentive" to people's ability to exercise their mobility rights.
Why not go all the way - let them stuff the kids in a FedEx box and just ship 'em out? And if they show up dead, just sue FedEx.
While we're at it, anyone with a pre-existing medical condition should also just "suck it up" and move - even if it risks killing them.
"Just move" sounds fine in the abstract, but the reality is often much, much more complicated.
Amazon keeps your history of reading library ebooks on their corporate servers
The libraries also keep a record of who has checked out what books. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to send you a notice saying you have overdue books.
They also are subject to FISA warrants (the "we can't tell you if your history has been subpoenaed") for your entire borrowing history.
Ignoring for a moment that I've never in my life searched for something as vague as "car".
You've never parked in a large parking lot and then a few hours later had to search for your car?
I remember one time finding my car, getting into it, starting it, then realizing that it wasn't my car. Turns out mine was parked a few lanes over. If that wasn't a weird enough coincidence, two years later, I bought another vehicle, and one day used the wrong key - and sure enough, it turned out the same key started both vehicles.
The Ski-Doo was originally intended to be named the "Ski-Dog" because Bombardier meant it to be a practical vehicle to replace the dogsled for hunters and trappers. By an accident, a painter misinterpreted the name and painted "Ski-Doo" on the first prototype
especially when whoever she is works in a profession where perception is everything.
Isn't that the case with most professions? As long as you can preserve the perception that YOU aren't the screw-up | problem | at fault, you can lever that perception into a series of promotions over you co-workers dead bodies.
Then jump to another company and lather, rinse, repeat...
The existence of the Peter Principle would argue in favour of this.
if you can buy them with real world money and you can sell them for real world money then they have value
I can buy packs of Monopoly Money using real world money, and the store is selling packs of Monopoly Money for real world money... but the Monopoly Money has no value as a currency.
Much like houses don't spend much time below the cost of manufacture. It does intermittently happen but not for long.
That is SO "previous century" thinking. On a percent basis from peak, houses have already dropped more than during the Great Depression. The only reason we don't call this the Great Depression Redux is because we don't want to use the "D-word"
Considered, by some economists, a rare and extreme form of recession, a depression is characterized by its length, by abnormally large increases in unemployment, falls in the availability of credit - often due to some kind of banking or financial crisis, shrinking outputâ"as buyers dry up and suppliers cut back on production, and investment, large number of bankruptciesâ"including sovereign debt defaults, significantly reduced amounts of trade and commerceâ"especially international, as well as highly volatile relative currency value fluctuationsâ"most often due to devaluations. Price deflation, financial crises and bank failures are also common elements of a depression that are not normally a part of a recession.
For all intents and purposes, we're already about 1/3 of the way into the Great Depression 2. Housing prices are slated to fall another 20%-30%, to below where they were in 1999 (they're now, on average, around 2002-2003). Consumers, who have already "cleared out" half a trillion of household debt just via both strategic and regular default, will drop between 1 and 1.5 trillion more. "Too big to fail" will become "too big to save", and the recovery won't begin until all that bad debt is recognized and flushed through the system - something every politician dreads happening on "their watch", so they'll just kick the can down to the next term rather than throw a few of the rat b*stards responsible in jail.
Sooooo boring having your money always be where you left it. And federally insured? Ugh.
With QuantumCoin, your money can both be there and not be there at the same time. So, even if the balance says you're broke one day, just come back tomorrow...
Unlike BitCoin, QuantumCoins have (at least) two sides. And if you DO lose a QuantumCoin, just check in the cracks in the couch - even if you lost it outside, because QuantumCoins can still re-appear in places other than where they were lost (they're the reverse of the sock-eating clothes dryer, thanks to QuantumPower!)
So, send me your ordinary money, and I'll send you back QuantumCoins! (which if you don't see them when you look in your mailbox, just look again until you get it right!* Or check your mailbox BEFORE you send in the order to see if they've arrived BEFORE we shipped them or even before you place your order, by using our custom two slit QuantumCoin detector - please order separately... or at the same time... it may or may not make a difference, depending...)
*Some restrictions apply. Due to temporal probability factors, the time required for "just look again" may exceed the heat death of the universe. If you suspect your shipment was "eaten" by such effects, you can "double down" on another order of QuantumCoins - after all, if you do it enough, they eventually ALL have to appear (for different values of "ALL have to").
$120 on a $500 purchase is not "a lot more expensive", not when the Asus has only a crappy 640x480 camera. a $60 throw-away cell phone gets you better than that nowadays.
And comparing a Macbook air with 64gig ssd and an i5 processor with a crapbook^netbook is really an apples vs oranges comparison.
You don't have an expectation of privacy in public - but you still have the right to have someone arrrested for following you around. Also, the regulation of the collection of personally identifiable information is more advanced on much of the world than it is in the US, where anything is for sale.
Thats probably 600 chillis. The article author must be a fat bastard to fit that much in his stomach at once.
The really hot ones are really small, shriveled-up things. Also, you might want to see how SKINNY some of the winners of "extreme eating" contests are. Does she look fat to you?
Her nickname "The Black Widow" refers to her ability to regularly defeat men four to five times her size. While the size of her stomach is only slightly larger than normal, her skinny build is perhaps her biggest advantage, allowing her stomach to expand more readily since it is not surrounded by the ring of fat common in other heavy eaters. She holds records in over 25 eating competitions, and in December 2008, she defeated top-ranked eater Takeru Kobayashi in a fruit-cake eating contest.
On July 4, 2005 she ate 37 hot dogs in 12 minutes at Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, setting a then-record for American competitors (which was also the female record). On August 8, 2005, she consumed 35 bratwursts in 10 minutes, beating the previous 10-minute record of 19.5 bratwursts, although her record was beaten in 2006 by Takeru Kobayashi.
On Sunday September 4, 2010 Thomas ate 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes setting a new world record during the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York. Joey Chestnut, America's No. 1 professional eater, was favored to win the competition. He came in second after eating 169 chicken wings.
On July 4, 2011, Thomas became the first champion of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest for Women. Eating 40 hot dogs in 10 minutes, Thomas earned the inaugural pink Pepto Bismol Belt and won $10,000.
On September 4th 2011, she attained the United States Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Buffalo, New York by eating 183 chicken wings in 12 minutes. She beat her previous world record mark set a year earlier and again defeated top ranked rival, Chestnut.
So, not necessarily fat.
Chili peppers cause the eater's insides to rev up activating the sympathetic nervous system â" which helps control most of the body's internal organs â" to expend more energy, so the body burns more calories when the same food is eaten with chili peppers
So hot peppers are a natural diet food. Cool - I mean HOT!
I hear getting sprayed with pepper spray has the same effect.
But why should we have to go to such extremes because web sites refuse to comply with the law and users' rights?
Back when my former boss wanted to implement some really serious tracking (pretty much everything, including mouse movements and keypresses) to help combat click fraud, I made it clear that there was no way in hell that would pass legal muster, and would attract all the wrong attention... and that there were other ways that aren't so invasive.
The like button is only on the page, because the designer of the page put it there. When you surf to some random website you are implicitly allowing that they can include images from any other website.
The "implicit" part is where the law gets broken. You cannot "implicitly" waive a right granted by statute because of some activity by a 3rd party - in this case the so-called "designer"- especially since you can't see it until after the fact - after you've downloaded the page.
All privacy bugs are rendered shallow by sufficient lawsuits - sue, baby, sue!
Sure, whatever. So now sites sending you data that YOUR OWN BROWSER requests is illegal? Would you care to stop knee jerking and think a little bit?
I have a right to assume that the web site will act within the law, same as if I invite you into my home I have a right to expect that you would do the same. The web sites enabling such tracking are violating the law, as simple as that, so instead of YOUR knee-jerk reaction, why not think why people are cheesed off?
Web sites simply don't have permission to set ANY cookies without your permission - the fact that they set one if you opt out is also a violation of the law in, for example, Europe. The default should be opt out, not opt in.
Hopefully they'll get a clue and sue the web site owners as well. There's no need for such detailed information.
Or eventually, we'll come up with "Consumer DRM" - where WE manage our own digital rights. After all, if it's good enough for Sony, it's good enough for you and me:-)
It happens automatically. See the "Like" button? It's because it's already been downloaded - even if you NEVER dealt with facebook. Facebook even tracks users vi IP+browser fingerprinting who they can't tie to an existing account so that if/when you DO sign up, they can match that history with you. Totally illegal.
i overhear students at my college complaining about OpenOffice "not doing what 'Real Office' does" and that it's "impossible to make it do stuff"
So there's the solution to the ugly name - rename it RealOffice. Or if you want to make it so that the name has its' own recursive marketing, rename it GetRealOffice.
... because end users don't care about the "libre" aspect, they just want to get their work done.
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I think that part of the problem is that BigCorp LIKES higher levels of corruption. It's those externalities that don't get factored into the price of stuff, just like not having to comply with more stringent pollution laws, etc.
You might want to check the facts before claiming that Apple products are "way more expensive". The price difference between the 16 gig sony, blackberry, and ipad is $20. Even the Asus is only $120 difference.
The 11" macbook air is within a dollar of the hp, but the hp uses a hard drive.
The fact is that once you get out of the bargain basement, they're very price competitive. Why do you think people run linux on apple gear?
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Anyone who tries to move with "little or no money", a.k.a. limited or no resources, risks having their kids end up as wards of the state they move to. Of course, you could also cut back on child protective services, since this is an "obvious disincentive" to people's ability to exercise their mobility rights.
Why not go all the way - let them stuff the kids in a FedEx box and just ship 'em out? And if they show up dead, just sue FedEx.
While we're at it, anyone with a pre-existing medical condition should also just "suck it up" and move - even if it risks killing them.
"Just move" sounds fine in the abstract, but the reality is often much, much more complicated.
The libraries also keep a record of who has checked out what books. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to send you a notice saying you have overdue books.
They also are subject to FISA warrants (the "we can't tell you if your history has been subpoenaed") for your entire borrowing history.
You've never parked in a large parking lot and then a few hours later had to search for your car?
I remember one time finding my car, getting into it, starting it, then realizing that it wasn't my car. Turns out mine was parked a few lanes over. If that wasn't a weird enough coincidence, two years later, I bought another vehicle, and one day used the wrong key - and sure enough, it turned out the same key started both vehicles.
It was supposed to be called SeaDog, not SeaDoo
Everyone knows he doesn't care about Ice Cream Sandwich - he prefers his own brand of Foot Cheese ( @ 1min54sec )
Or maybe the FP saw it in the firehose, like I and others did?
Isn't that the case with most professions? As long as you can preserve the perception that YOU aren't the screw-up | problem | at fault, you can lever that perception into a series of promotions over you co-workers dead bodies.
Then jump to another company and lather, rinse, repeat ...
The existence of the Peter Principle would argue in favour of this.
Grace Park is the right age, etc., but lives in Vancouver, BC.
I can buy packs of Monopoly Money using real world money, and the store is selling packs of Monopoly Money for real world money ... but the Monopoly Money has no value as a currency.
Even Canadian Tire money has real-world value.
That is SO "previous century" thinking. On a percent basis from peak, houses have already dropped more than during the Great Depression. The only reason we don't call this the Great Depression Redux is because we don't want to use the "D-word"
For all intents and purposes, we're already about 1/3 of the way into the Great Depression 2. Housing prices are slated to fall another 20%-30%, to below where they were in 1999 (they're now, on average, around 2002-2003). Consumers, who have already "cleared out" half a trillion of household debt just via both strategic and regular default, will drop between 1 and 1.5 trillion more. "Too big to fail" will become "too big to save", and the recovery won't begin until all that bad debt is recognized and flushed through the system - something every politician dreads happening on "their watch", so they'll just kick the can down to the next term rather than throw a few of the rat b*stards responsible in jail.
With QuantumCoin, your money can both be there and not be there at the same time. So, even if the balance says you're broke one day, just come back tomorrow ...
Unlike BitCoin, QuantumCoins have (at least) two sides. And if you DO lose a QuantumCoin, just check in the cracks in the couch - even if you lost it outside, because QuantumCoins can still re-appear in places other than where they were lost (they're the reverse of the sock-eating clothes dryer, thanks to QuantumPower!)
So, send me your ordinary money, and I'll send you back QuantumCoins! (which if you don't see them when you look in your mailbox, just look again until you get it right!* Or check your mailbox BEFORE you send in the order to see if they've arrived BEFORE we shipped them or even before you place your order, by using our custom two slit QuantumCoin detector - please order separately ... or at the same time ... it may or may not make a difference, depending ...)
*Some restrictions apply. Due to temporal probability factors, the time required for "just look again" may exceed the heat death of the universe. If you suspect your shipment was "eaten" by such effects, you can "double down" on another order of QuantumCoins - after all, if you do it enough, they eventually ALL have to appear (for different values of "ALL have to").
$120 on a $500 purchase is not "a lot more expensive", not when the Asus has only a crappy 640x480 camera. a $60 throw-away cell phone gets you better than that nowadays.
And comparing a Macbook air with 64gig ssd and an i5 processor with a crapbook^netbook is really an apples vs oranges comparison.
You don't have an expectation of privacy in public - but you still have the right to have someone arrrested for following you around. Also, the regulation of the collection of personally identifiable information is more advanced on much of the world than it is in the US, where anything is for sale.
The really hot ones are really small, shriveled-up things. Also, you might want to see how SKINNY some of the winners of "extreme eating" contests are. Does she look fat to you?
So, not necessarily fat.
So hot peppers are a natural diet food. Cool - I mean HOT!
I hear getting sprayed with pepper spray has the same effect.
I think you missed how facebook tracks you even without cookies. It's not *that* hard to do - I wrote similar code in a day.
But why should we have to go to such extremes because web sites refuse to comply with the law and users' rights?
Back when my former boss wanted to implement some really serious tracking (pretty much everything, including mouse movements and keypresses) to help combat click fraud, I made it clear that there was no way in hell that would pass legal muster, and would attract all the wrong attention ... and that there were other ways that aren't so invasive.
The "implicit" part is where the law gets broken. You cannot "implicitly" waive a right granted by statute because of some activity by a 3rd party - in this case the so-called "designer"- especially since you can't see it until after the fact - after you've downloaded the page.
All privacy bugs are rendered shallow by sufficient lawsuits - sue, baby, sue!
I have a right to assume that the web site will act within the law, same as if I invite you into my home I have a right to expect that you would do the same. The web sites enabling such tracking are violating the law, as simple as that, so instead of YOUR knee-jerk reaction, why not think why people are cheesed off?
Web sites simply don't have permission to set ANY cookies without your permission - the fact that they set one if you opt out is also a violation of the law in, for example, Europe. The default should be opt out, not opt in.
Or eventually, we'll come up with "Consumer DRM" - where WE manage our own digital rights. After all, if it's good enough for Sony, it's good enough for you and me :-)
It happens automatically. See the "Like" button? It's because it's already been downloaded - even if you NEVER dealt with facebook. Facebook even tracks users vi IP+browser fingerprinting who they can't tie to an existing account so that if/when you DO sign up, they can match that history with you. Totally illegal.
Ask any student about how much their textbooks cost ... or anyone who needs to buy a copy of some of the standards for their profession.
So there's the solution to the ugly name - rename it RealOffice. Or if you want to make it so that the name has its' own recursive marketing, rename it GetRealOffice.
I think that part of the problem is that BigCorp LIKES higher levels of corruption. It's those externalities that don't get factored into the price of stuff, just like not having to comply with more stringent pollution laws, etc.
The 11" macbook air is within a dollar of the hp, but the hp uses a hard drive.
The fact is that once you get out of the bargain basement, they're very price competitive. Why do you think people run linux on apple gear?
Giant Sand Worms.