What claim is that? That more people would die than actually have, if not for the anti-terrorism efforts? What's facetious about that? I never said more would die than have died in car accidents, if that's what you think I said, because I didn't; you may need to slow down and read more carefully. Regards evidence, I know for a fact that there is a massive anti-terrorist undertaking, but why would the CIA/FBI/NSA and myriad other LE agencies publish their information as to how many they've thwarted, which leads to questions like "how" and "when"? That would be like sending a western union telegram and telling them exactly what we're doing to combat them. Same is true of investigations into the Mafia or any other criminal enterprise, ongoing investigations are kept closely guarded.
Car accidents and terrorism are apples and oranges. I find this argument to be repulsively dismissive of life. It sounds like the, "That stuff only happens to other people, not me" mindset. Until it happens to you or someone close to you. When people die in a car crash, it's an accident. It's random. Shit happens, but no one was [i]intentionally[/i] trying to mow you down in their car. That's the whole difference. Intent is the big deal, because there's a human intelligence creating and driving it, not random circumstance, and that intent is to cause and increase the pain, suffering, and death as much as possible. (And if a car accident killed 20, 100, or 2,000 people in a single event, I think it'd get a LOT of attention). Admit it or not, but one of the reasons so few people have died via terrorism is probably because there's a ridiculously lopsided massive effort to fight it.(though the TSA is a bit of a joke).
If the system simply said, "Big deal, more people die in car accidents" and did nothing, there'd be more terrorist attacks and deaths, because it's not for lack of trying on the part of ISIS and AQ, who clearly want to, who have have the resources to. And while the feds can't catch everyone (Boston bomber) that doesn't mean they don't thwart others.
Just to clarify, I'm not justifying the intrusion on the Constitution, just addressing the car deaths analogy.
That sounds like Novell GroupWise. We using that, but the admin office over us is pushing us to go Exchange soon. Frankly, I think I'll fine with that. GroupWise chokes all the time.
Wrong, most are Democrats. And piss off with that "cisgender/not cisgender" crap, that's too lopsided to even be a worthwhile metric. http://message.snopes.com/show...
The UK is also only a little over half the size of California, and is literally an island unto itself. (well, technically, two). The US has a nearly two thousand mile long southern border over which much gun smuggling regularly occurs. Some could occur over the nearly 4,000 mile long US-Canadian border. The US is also rife with street gangs like the Bloods, Crips, MS13, and about a hundred others who make sure handguns are a stock-in-trade of theirs.
The guns are here to stay. Pandora's Box is open and there's no stuffing the guns back in it. The best course of action is gun education and mental health awareness.
Then he didn't even get NASA's report right, they found evidence of flowing water, not actual flowing water.
Though I will add, is anyone really amazed that they found more evidence? It really isn't that big of a deal IMO, because we know there's frozen water already - the ice caps (and I've seen them myself with my telescope); it just doesn't seem like that big a stretch. I not blown away by the fact that water may have thawed and flowed at some point in the planet's history, it doesn't sound like something that's terribly unlikely. I'll be thrilled when they find microbes or fossils of same, now that will be news!
Or he knew exactly what he was doing, and is a liberal actually creating a strawman caricature to make Rs look that careless. Pretty sure both sides do that -it's like a double agent kind of thing.
When someone says technology is old and needs to be replaced because it's old does not truly understand technology. Age does not mean something needs to be replaced. Whether or not it gets the job done properly and efficiently is the point. It's a waste of resources to simply by something new. This joker does not understand that and is probably the reason why companies over spend on technology and then make drastic cut backs because they over spent.
That's true, but, it doesn't help that IT vendors are always pushing customers into new gear. These days, it seems servers and disk arrays reach End of Life sooner than need be. We've still got some old Dell servers that were EOL 8 years ago, and they're still kicking.. but fortunately, nothing critical. For the critical info, we're forced into tech renewal.
Everything today is some kind of a race; we need it now, move forward, keep up, get ahead etc...
That made my day, thanks. I'm familiar with the "We think we should have all the greatest and best services that Fortune500 companies enjoy, even though we're funded like a corner convenience store.. and can we implement this with fewer employees and a smaller budget than we had 5 to 10 years ago?"
I don't think profit is the *only* thing to consider in a business, there's also the investment (yes, it's an investment) of "good will" towards customers (and employees), but more and more corporations have forgotten that, now it's all about the shareholders and the board.
To have such a price difference between 16GB and 32GB when the iPhone5 came out was one thing, it was still a little steep but tolerable (I bought a 5 w/ 16GB); but to continue that difference today when 32GB of flash memory is so much cheaper is just brazen, and it will likely hurt them in the long run, driving more people to Android. Profits will fall, and then they will be "wrong".
The Ringworld seems a bit more feasible still. And even that could be hard to detect as anything different than the heat from their sun if it were aligned so as to obscure part of their sun from our perspective, where the heat generated from the Ringworld itself might just break even with the heat (from their star) obscured. That's wild conjecture, of course, but not too unreasonable.
Because it means you must toe the party line on every single issue, of which you only listed a few, or be an outcast. That's the problem with both parties. A little compromise might actually be a good thing sometimes; that said, those particular issues bother me too.
Age was a huge argument the Left used against McCain in 2008, though. And I haven't heard that much bellyaching from the collective Right regarding Sander's age, they focus much more on his being a socialist running on the democrat platform. Still better than Hillary though.
That's not contradictory. Assuming GP is right, perhaps they don't know how to do it properly because they don't care to, knowing it would likely cost them more money and profits to implement it, so they've ignored aspects of that technology. If you decide to skimp on a technology because it's too expensive, and not use it, or parts of it, then it's not at all unreasonable you'd have no experience and little expertise in running that particular said technology or aspect of it.
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What claim is that? That more people would die than actually have, if not for the anti-terrorism efforts? What's facetious about that? I never said more would die than have died in car accidents, if that's what you think I said, because I didn't; you may need to slow down and read more carefully. Regards evidence, I know for a fact that there is a massive anti-terrorist undertaking, but why would the CIA/FBI/NSA and myriad other LE agencies publish their information as to how many they've thwarted, which leads to questions like "how" and "when"? That would be like sending a western union telegram and telling them exactly what we're doing to combat them. Same is true of investigations into the Mafia or any other criminal enterprise, ongoing investigations are kept closely guarded.
Car accidents and terrorism are apples and oranges. I find this argument to be repulsively dismissive of life. It sounds like the, "That stuff only happens to other people, not me" mindset. Until it happens to you or someone close to you. When people die in a car crash, it's an accident. It's random. Shit happens, but no one was [i]intentionally[/i] trying to mow you down in their car. That's the whole difference. Intent is the big deal, because there's a human intelligence creating and driving it, not random circumstance, and that intent is to cause and increase the pain, suffering, and death as much as possible. (And if a car accident killed 20, 100, or 2,000 people in a single event, I think it'd get a LOT of attention). Admit it or not, but one of the reasons so few people have died via terrorism is probably because there's a ridiculously lopsided massive effort to fight it.(though the TSA is a bit of a joke).
If the system simply said, "Big deal, more people die in car accidents" and did nothing, there'd be more terrorist attacks and deaths, because it's not for lack of trying on the part of ISIS and AQ, who clearly want to, who have have the resources to. And while the feds can't catch everyone (Boston bomber) that doesn't mean they don't thwart others.
Just to clarify, I'm not justifying the intrusion on the Constitution, just addressing the car deaths analogy.
That sounds like Novell GroupWise. We using that, but the admin office over us is pushing us to go Exchange soon. Frankly, I think I'll fine with that. GroupWise chokes all the time.
Wrong, most are Democrats. And piss off with that "cisgender/not cisgender" crap, that's too lopsided to even be a worthwhile metric.
http://message.snopes.com/show...
I'd much prefer to use a halberd on a zombie. A machete means getting too close for comfort!
The UK is also only a little over half the size of California, and is literally an island unto itself. (well, technically, two). The US has a nearly two thousand mile long southern border over which much gun smuggling regularly occurs. Some could occur over the nearly 4,000 mile long US-Canadian border. The US is also rife with street gangs like the Bloods, Crips, MS13, and about a hundred others who make sure handguns are a stock-in-trade of theirs.
The guns are here to stay. Pandora's Box is open and there's no stuffing the guns back in it. The best course of action is gun education and mental health awareness.
I think they'll see a massive flood of negativity on themselves, but only if they even allow themselves to be rated in their (cr)app.
I cannot condone dogs who smoke crack and watch kiddie porn!
Then he didn't even get NASA's report right, they found evidence of flowing water, not actual flowing water.
Though I will add, is anyone really amazed that they found more evidence? It really isn't that big of a deal IMO, because we know there's frozen water already - the ice caps (and I've seen them myself with my telescope); it just doesn't seem like that big a stretch. I not blown away by the fact that water may have thawed and flowed at some point in the planet's history, it doesn't sound like something that's terribly unlikely. I'll be thrilled when they find microbes or fossils of same, now that will be news!
Or he knew exactly what he was doing, and is a liberal actually creating a strawman caricature to make Rs look that careless. Pretty sure both sides do that -it's like a double agent kind of thing.
When someone says technology is old and needs to be replaced because it's old does not truly understand technology. Age does not mean something needs to be replaced. Whether or not it gets the job done properly and efficiently is the point. It's a waste of resources to simply by something new. This joker does not understand that and is probably the reason why companies over spend on technology and then make drastic cut backs because they over spent.
That's true, but, it doesn't help that IT vendors are always pushing customers into new gear. These days, it seems servers and disk arrays reach End of Life sooner than need be. We've still got some old Dell servers that were EOL 8 years ago, and they're still kicking.. but fortunately, nothing critical. For the critical info, we're forced into tech renewal.
Everything today is some kind of a race; we need it now, move forward, keep up, get ahead etc...
Autofocus.
and you won't find a single shrubbery anywhere. Ni!
I predict a storm of semantic pedantry :)
That made my day, thanks. I'm familiar with the "We think we should have all the greatest and best services that Fortune500 companies enjoy, even though we're funded like a corner convenience store.. and can we implement this with fewer employees and a smaller budget than we had 5 to 10 years ago?"
This. Can't do it on my S4.
I don't think profit is the *only* thing to consider in a business, there's also the investment (yes, it's an investment) of "good will" towards customers (and employees), but more and more corporations have forgotten that, now it's all about the shareholders and the board.
To have such a price difference between 16GB and 32GB when the iPhone5 came out was one thing, it was still a little steep but tolerable (I bought a 5 w/ 16GB); but to continue that difference today when 32GB of flash memory is so much cheaper is just brazen, and it will likely hurt them in the long run, driving more people to Android. Profits will fall, and then they will be "wrong".
Aaaand now I'm waiting for the obligatory AC .. "You are all zombies. Zombies say grrnngh. GRNNGH! Grnngh zombies, GRNGGH. You Zombies!" or whatever.
I meant compared to a Dyson Sphere, which would require even more material. At least, Larry Niven seems to think so.
Neither do I. I don't listen to any radio, actually, I have an eclectic taste in music I guess. I just use my MP3 player for prog or hard rock.
The Ringworld seems a bit more feasible still. And even that could be hard to detect as anything different than the heat from their sun if it were aligned so as to obscure part of their sun from our perspective, where the heat generated from the Ringworld itself might just break even with the heat (from their star) obscured. That's wild conjecture, of course, but not too unreasonable.
Because it means you must toe the party line on every single issue, of which you only listed a few, or be an outcast. That's the problem with both parties. A little compromise might actually be a good thing sometimes; that said, those particular issues bother me too.
Age was a huge argument the Left used against McCain in 2008, though. And I haven't heard that much bellyaching from the collective Right regarding Sander's age, they focus much more on his being a socialist running on the democrat platform. Still better than Hillary though.
Yep, we still do. No one's chased anyone off, though the stupid RINO label is annoying.
That's not contradictory. Assuming GP is right, perhaps they don't know how to do it properly because they don't care to, knowing it would likely cost them more money and profits to implement it, so they've ignored aspects of that technology. If you decide to skimp on a technology because it's too expensive, and not use it, or parts of it, then it's not at all unreasonable you'd have no experience and little expertise in running that particular said technology or aspect of it.