This is how elections were done during the Rome Republic. People borrowed hugely for their "campaigns"; these were generally public works projects and games, etc. Being the "Director of Parks and Recs" was how politicians got their name out there.
If they failed to win the election, they'd be ruined financially, and banished at the minimum. If they won, well, good. That's where the *real* money is.
Fwiw, right around the time that this practice peaked is right around the time Rome lost its Republic.
Eh, people make jokes. Shrub had his little lexidudlies that he'd throw out. One time someone caused the Soviet Far East to go on alert for half an hour..."My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
I like the way he says "he Russians had the good sense to see it as the enormous money waste it was". It was more like the Russians had the good sense to run out of money.
" Robotic space probes are most certainly adequate for exploring the universe." qft.
I've found some interesting conversations from various commenters (as usual), tangentially related (as usual), but, TFS tells me that someone is trying to sell an agenda, so I'm not going to follow the click-bait (as usual).
This happened here in Australia, now we have a huge bat (and bat guano) problem. The bats a bigger problem than the insects ever were.
"The placental mammals made their reappearance in Australia in the Pleistocene, as Australia continued to move closer to Indonesia, both bats and rodents appearing reliably in the fossil record." - wiki
Damned Pleistocenians.
But I pedantisize. I read about Bateman's Bay. What a mess.
Truthfully, NY does need to take care as it can get out of control. But humans are getting better at that and I've read stories of farmers working with different species to control or solve various problems, etc. Still, as you say, good luck with that.
In SoCal, coyotes are showing up in urban areas, and cougars (mountain lions) in rural. The population is grumbling about lost pets, and the occasional attack on a human (a kid or two by a coyote, or an adult being killed...cougars are bad-assed), and the grumbling is getting louder.
Due to drought and encroachment, and logistics, of course, these critters can't be picked up and moved. In the past, humans had a solution for predators, as many extinctions attest to. It will be interesting to see how this problem will be handled in the "California" way.
Yeah, I've been stuck and am slowly extricating myself from a position that eventually stripped my authority but left the responsibility. It happened slowly, as the CIO started hiring directors, instead of promoting from within (Sr. Mgr was the highest slot up to then).
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> In any case, it's all theoretical. I'm sure Clinton had real experts delete those emails
dude - we already got those emails _before_ they were deleted...
Boris, please send! thx. #feeltheberm
This is how elections were done during the Rome Republic. People borrowed hugely for their "campaigns"; these were generally public works projects and games, etc. Being the "Director of Parks and Recs" was how politicians got their name out there.
If they failed to win the election, they'd be ruined financially, and banished at the minimum. If they won, well, good. That's where the *real* money is.
Fwiw, right around the time that this practice peaked is right around the time Rome lost its Republic.
That doesn't sound very free.
Yeah, pretty ridiculous. It got us to come join in the fun, though, so I guess it worked.
Use what he uses for filtration. Money.
What he's really asking is if Russia would be so kind as to pull a copy from their backups.
Ha!
No, of course not. 1st amendment and all that, y'know.
Eh, people make jokes. Shrub had his little lexidudlies that he'd throw out. One time someone caused the Soviet Far East to go on alert for half an hour..."My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
It's all great fun.
I like the way he says "he Russians had the good sense to see it as the enormous money waste it was". It was more like the Russians had the good sense to run out of money.
Yeah, I'm glad he stated that in the first paragraph. It relieved me of the necessity of reading the rest of his essay.
Mars is a planet entirely populated by robots.
...and so it starts.
Oh shit, I forgot about the camouflaged links. Thanks for pointing it out (again). Good thing I rarely read TFAs.
" Robotic space probes are most certainly adequate for exploring the universe." qft.
I've found some interesting conversations from various commenters (as usual), tangentially related (as usual), but, TFS tells me that someone is trying to sell an agenda, so I'm not going to follow the click-bait (as usual).
That's why you are supposed to be running electricity through it. Plug the hat into the nearest AC socket.
No, you're buying into Edison's game. Tesla had the answer: plug your hat into a rectifier.
Case in point: "after 70 or so years of exposure are mental capabilities are ran dry".
One group hates the other group's corruption, and will give their group's corruption a pass. The converse is also true.
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Arrrgh!
Why would the energy grids be plugged into the Dark Web?
...what better place to hide your energy grid than putting it on the Dark Web!
Sheer brilliance.
Wouldn't sheer brilliance cause it to become Web Lite?
the wheel was invented over and over again
Yeah. Saw another version of one the other day. Some kind of big screw-like pneumatic thingy.
Truthfully, that's why I clicked this story. I too wanted to see how energy grids were associated with the dark web. Poor editing, or bait and switch?
This happened here in Australia, now we have a huge bat (and bat guano) problem. The bats a bigger problem than the insects ever were.
"The placental mammals made their reappearance in Australia in the Pleistocene, as Australia continued to move closer to Indonesia, both bats and rodents appearing reliably in the fossil record." - wiki
Damned Pleistocenians.
But I pedantisize. I read about Bateman's Bay. What a mess.
Truthfully, NY does need to take care as it can get out of control. But humans are getting better at that and I've read stories of farmers working with different species to control or solve various problems, etc. Still, as you say, good luck with that.
In SoCal, coyotes are showing up in urban areas, and cougars (mountain lions) in rural. The population is grumbling about lost pets, and the occasional attack on a human (a kid or two by a coyote, or an adult being killed...cougars are bad-assed), and the grumbling is getting louder.
Due to drought and encroachment, and logistics, of course, these critters can't be picked up and moved. In the past, humans had a solution for predators, as many extinctions attest to. It will be interesting to see how this problem will be handled in the "California" way.
It's a rare Medium that's done well.
Yeah, I've been stuck and am slowly extricating myself from a position that eventually stripped my authority but left the responsibility. It happened slowly, as the CIO started hiring directors, instead of promoting from within (Sr. Mgr was the highest slot up to then).
Sentence 1: agree.
Sentence 2: agree.
Sentence 3: agree.
Sentence 4: hard right turn into a Godwin.
Hey, get enough of those "boss-people-around" folks in a meeting room, and you can extend a 3 week project into 3 months easy.