"If they think you're serious, they'll negotiate, and it will never come to (nuclear war)".
Trump then formed a coalition with China and Japan to hit North Korea with sanctions so severe, that they were going to run out of foreign currency and suffer economic collapse within the year: https://www.ft.com/content/db9...
Given how everyone thought Trump was going to drag the world into a nuclear bomb exchange with North Korea, clearly Kim thought he was serious too.
So, presented with these facts which ended up bringing Kim to the table, how are you going to resolve your clear cognitive dissonance and hatred towards Trump? Continue to deny reality and assume that Trump doesn't know what he's doing?"
Looks like it was a deliberate plan. You may argue that it was a stupid plan and he got lucky, but he went out and achieved exactly what he said he would by having the world believe that he was the madman willing to enter into a nuclear exchange with North Korea just because of insults on Twitter. But then you would have to acknowledged that he had planned this all along in the first place.
The South Korean foreign minister "believes President Donald Trump is largely responsible for bringing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the negotiating table".
That assumes dividends reinvested and no taxes paid (all money in a tax free vehicle like a 401k). What do you intend to live on?
Trump's siblings surely got 40-200m as well, why aren't they billionaires? What makes you think you can out invest them?
More likely, assuming you are just like most everyone else, you would panic during the recessions of the 80s, the 2000 crash, and 2008 crash, and would severely underperform the market.
And Trump would still outperform you even if everything went your way.
People who repeat this either don't pay attention or are financially illiterate.
Maybe if you froze himself in a cryogenic freezer so you never had to spend any of the dividends or cash something out of the index and cherry picked the exact time frame to allow 40-200m (depending on what source you want to use) to grow into 1 billion, then yes you can make that argument. You would still vastly underperform Trump.
If making a billion from the inheritance was so simple, why aren't any of Trump's siblings billionaires?
1. A studio arrangement, comprising: a background comprising a white cyclorama; a front light source positioned in a longitudinal axis intersecting the background, the longitudinal axis further being substantially perpendicular to a surface of the white cyclorama; an image capture position located between the background and the front light source in the longitudinal axis, the image capture position comprising at least one image capture device equipped with an eighty-five millimeter lens, the at least one image capture device further configured with an ISO setting of about three hundred twenty and an f-stop value of about 5.6; an elevated platform positioned between the image capture position and the background in the longitudinal axis, the front light source being directed toward a subject on the elevated platform; a first rear light source aimed at the background and positioned between the elevated platform and the background in the longitudinal axis, the first rear light source positioned below a top surface of the elevated platform and oriented at an upward angle relative to a floor level; a second rear light source aimed at the background and positioned between the elevated platform and the background in the longitudinal axis, the second rear light source positioned above the top surface of the elevated platform and oriented at a downward angle relative to the floor level; a third rear light source aimed at the background and positioned in a lateral axis intersecting the elevated platform and being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the third rear light source further positioned adjacent to a side of the elevated platform; and a fourth rear light source aimed at the background and positioned in the lateral axis adjacent to an opposing side of the elevated platform relative to the third rear light source; wherein a top surface of the elevated platform reflects light emanating from the background such that the elevated platform appears white and a rear edge of the elevated platform is substantially imperceptible to the image capture device; and the first rear light source, the second rear light source, the third rear light source, and the fourth rear light source comprise a combined intensity greater than the front light source according to about a 10:3 ratio.
If you did all that, then yes, Amazon should sue you.
The reason the rest of the world is cheaper is because their health care systems are subsidized by US taxpayers, US pharmas, and US medical device makers.
US Pharms do the R+D, operations, marketing and manufacturing that US investors and taxpayers pay for and then the rest of the world gets all the benefits at a lower cost per pill/treatment
Merck, Pfizer, BMY-Squibb, Lilly, JNJ, Abbott, Watson, Mylan, Gilead Sciences, etc. are all US based companies. There are almost no equivalents in the rest of the world. For example, drug development is almost completely dead in Europe except for the Swiss (Roche), and the lone ~2 remaining UK players.
Same thing goes for medical devices: JNJ, GE, BSX, MDT, STJ, EW, BCR, EK, et al. [Siemens being the main exception.]
As it stands, the rest of the world only pays the variable costs of all the research, drugs, and new products invented in the US after being subsidized by US taxpayers, gov't, and investors, essentially behaving as free-riders.
There are numerous academic studies demonstrating this, as well as the market itself showing how simple it is, for example, to make a profit re-importing the same drug from Canada *back* to the US.
What will be very interesting is the effect of a health care system like the affordable care act on the US. The reason other countries get to free-ride is because the US pays so much. If the US tries to change that then house of cards comes crashing down, and either the quality of medical care will go down all across the board, or the medical costs of the rest of the world will escalate.
The difference between men and women is even more drastic in Shogi (Japanese chess).
In order to qualify to become a professional, first you have to enter the Shoreikai and climb all the way to 3-dan (equivalent is amateur 6-dan) before entering a round robin tournament exam against all of the other 3-dan players. The top two get crowned as 4-dan and get to become professionals.
No woman has ever advanced past Shoreikai 1-kyu (amateur 4 dan). Hence, the shogi association created a separate womens league. The titleholders of the womens league are even seeded in the regular championship league, but they almost always lose horribly, and they can almost never beat even the newly crowned 4-dan pros (they have something like a 20% win percentage against male professionals as a whole).
The issue is whether mandatory price floors should automatically be considered anticompetitive price fixing. Even if the case ruled in favor for Leegin, one could still sue under the Sherman Act if they can establish that the price floor has an anti-competitive effect.
Many Slashdotters complain about how old laws adversely affect society when they don't keep up with the times. I think this is one of those cases, as current economic theory states that price floors aren't automatically bad (the US, for example, keeps price floors on agricultural products to prevent another mass deflation of prices as seen in the Great Depression).
That's the famous Japanese comedy tv show Downtown's Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (This ain't no job for kids). The ref and the last guy in the red are Hamada and Matsumoto of the group Downtown.
The show's kinda like Jackass, only they've been around for much longer and they show a lot of variety (including Abbot and Costello type bits). Very funny indeed.
which I admit were some of the greatest gaming footage I had ever seen. Listen to how the audience goes nuts during the entire thing; it was like watching art unravel before your eyes. The most telling thing was that a lot of the people in the audience knew aboslutely nothing about the game, but were going nuts anyways.
I also think a game show like Game Center CX from Japan would work well in the states. They take a comedian who plays through retro games and attempts to beat them before midnight. Arino Shinya's attempt to go through Ghouls and Goblins and his reactions to and comments on the game were pretty hilarious.
The USPTO is obligated to publish patent applications 18 months after filing. Given their backlog of software patents, they usually don't address the merits of one until after 33 months or so after filing. That is why you might see some strange looking applications.
When I was attending Junior High a long time ago, our social science teacher would tell us stories about how the school was haunted by a ghost that had followed him from a previous job. He went on to say how the ghost was very mischevious and that he would make doors fly open and objects fly. We all laughed and thought his stories were amusing, but we never thought they were real.
Until one day... during my science class, a vial which was located on an upper shelf inexplicably *levitated* itself to the middle of the classroom in such slow motion that everyone's attention was immediately diverted to this strange phenomenon. Without warning, the vial then flung itself into the chalkboard at the front of the classroom at an extremely high speed, shattering itself.
That poor science teacher never came back after that. Although I don't believe in ghosts at all, even to this day, I can't explain how in the world something like that could happen, or how something like that could be engineered.
The reason Japan has one of the lowest birthrates among teenagers is because they most likely have the highest abortion rate in the world. Unfortunately, most of the statistics will show otherwise, simply because in Japanese culture, teenage pregnancy is an extreme shame so these kinds of statistics will be severely underreported.
Less sex than Americans? You've got to be kidding me This is a country that has rampant problems with Enjo Kosai (prostitution among young girls, mostly junior high and high schoolers). You can honestly believe a culture where showing sexual content and harsh language to children have no effect; as a result many teenagers in Japan don't think things like Enjo Kosai are wrong.
In any case, you could be held liable in a civil action. Purchasing a stolen item, even in good faith, makes you liable for conversion of chattels. The true owner can sue you under that tort.
That's one of the basics of American tort law. The social reasoning behind it is to encourage people to do due diligence and be wary of what they buy and to prevent thieves from profiting off of stolen property.
Actually in this situation, you would liable for the tort of conversion, even if you were a purchaser in good faith (i.e. you didn't know that the laptop was stolen). You could get taken to civil court.
This is one of the basics of American tort law. I'm surprised that there are people who still don't know this.
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everything looks like a nail.
As some anonymous coward pointed out in this thread:
"Clearly deliberately. He has been thinking about this since 1999:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"If they think you're serious, they'll negotiate, and it will never come to (nuclear war)".
Trump then formed a coalition with China and Japan to hit North Korea with sanctions so severe, that they were going to run out of foreign currency and suffer economic collapse within the year:
https://www.ft.com/content/db9...
Given how everyone thought Trump was going to drag the world into a nuclear bomb exchange with North Korea, clearly Kim thought he was serious too.
So, presented with these facts which ended up bringing Kim to the table, how are you going to resolve your clear cognitive dissonance and hatred towards Trump? Continue to deny reality and assume that Trump doesn't know what he's doing?"
Looks like it was a deliberate plan. You may argue that it was a stupid plan and he got lucky, but he went out and achieved exactly what he said he would by having the world believe that he was the madman willing to enter into a nuclear exchange with North Korea just because of insults on Twitter. But then you would have to acknowledged that he had planned this all along in the first place.
The South Korean foreign minister "believes President Donald Trump is largely responsible for bringing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the negotiating table".
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26...
Is your understanding of the Korean political situation more astute than hers?
Brave New World was supposed to be a warning, not a guidebook.
That assumes dividends reinvested and no taxes paid (all money in a tax free vehicle like a 401k). What do you intend to live on?
Trump's siblings surely got 40-200m as well, why aren't they billionaires? What makes you think you can out invest them?
More likely, assuming you are just like most everyone else, you would panic during the recessions of the 80s, the 2000 crash, and 2008 crash, and would severely underperform the market.
And Trump would still outperform you even if everything went your way.
People who repeat this either don't pay attention or are financially illiterate.
Maybe if you froze himself in a cryogenic freezer so you never had to spend any of the dividends or cash something out of the index and cherry picked the exact time frame to allow 40-200m (depending on what source you want to use) to grow into 1 billion, then yes you can make that argument. You would still vastly underperform Trump.
If making a billion from the inheritance was so simple, why aren't any of Trump's siblings billionaires?
1. A studio arrangement, comprising: a background comprising a white cyclorama; a front light source positioned in a longitudinal axis intersecting the background, the longitudinal axis further being substantially perpendicular to a surface of the white cyclorama; an image capture position located between the background and the front light source in the longitudinal axis, the image capture position comprising at least one image capture device equipped with an eighty-five millimeter lens, the at least one image capture device further configured with an ISO setting of about three hundred twenty and an f-stop value of about 5.6; an elevated platform positioned between the image capture position and the background in the longitudinal axis, the front light source being directed toward a subject on the elevated platform; a first rear light source aimed at the background and positioned between the elevated platform and the background in the longitudinal axis, the first rear light source positioned below a top surface of the elevated platform and oriented at an upward angle relative to a floor level; a second rear light source aimed at the background and positioned between the elevated platform and the background in the longitudinal axis, the second rear light source positioned above the top surface of the elevated platform and oriented at a downward angle relative to the floor level; a third rear light source aimed at the background and positioned in a lateral axis intersecting the elevated platform and being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the third rear light source further positioned adjacent to a side of the elevated platform; and a fourth rear light source aimed at the background and positioned in the lateral axis adjacent to an opposing side of the elevated platform relative to the third rear light source; wherein a top surface of the elevated platform reflects light emanating from the background such that the elevated platform appears white and a rear edge of the elevated platform is substantially imperceptible to the image capture device; and the first rear light source, the second rear light source, the third rear light source, and the fourth rear light source comprise a combined intensity greater than the front light source according to about a 10:3 ratio.
If you did all that, then yes, Amazon should sue you.
The reason the rest of the world is cheaper is because their health care systems are subsidized by US taxpayers, US pharmas, and US medical device makers.
US Pharms do the R+D, operations, marketing and manufacturing that US investors and taxpayers pay for and then the rest of the world gets all the benefits at a lower cost per pill/treatment
Merck, Pfizer, BMY-Squibb, Lilly, JNJ, Abbott, Watson, Mylan, Gilead Sciences, etc. are all US based companies. There are almost no equivalents in the rest of the world. For example, drug development is almost completely dead in Europe except for the Swiss (Roche), and the lone ~2 remaining UK players.
Same thing goes for medical devices: JNJ, GE, BSX, MDT, STJ, EW, BCR, EK, et al. [Siemens being the main exception.]
As it stands, the rest of the world only pays the variable costs of all the research, drugs, and new products invented in the US after being subsidized by US taxpayers, gov't, and investors, essentially behaving as free-riders.
There are numerous academic studies demonstrating this, as well as the market itself showing how simple it is, for example, to make a profit re-importing the same drug from Canada *back* to the US.
What will be very interesting is the effect of a health care system like the affordable care act on the US. The reason other countries get to free-ride is because the US pays so much. If the US tries to change that then house of cards comes crashing down, and either the quality of medical care will go down all across the board, or the medical costs of the rest of the world will escalate.
Didn't mean to post this as AC:
The difference between men and women is even more drastic in Shogi (Japanese chess).
In order to qualify to become a professional, first you have to enter the Shoreikai and climb all the way to 3-dan (equivalent is amateur 6-dan) before entering a round robin tournament exam against all of the other 3-dan players. The top two get crowned as 4-dan and get to become professionals.
No woman has ever advanced past Shoreikai 1-kyu (amateur 4 dan). Hence, the shogi association created a separate womens league. The titleholders of the womens league are even seeded in the regular championship league, but they almost always lose horribly, and they can almost never beat even the newly crowned 4-dan pros (they have something like a 20% win percentage against male professionals as a whole).
No, I'm your manager. You're fired.
Replace "Virtual" with "X-TREME" and you might actually have something there.
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This is what they're really afraid of. It would be very funny if he got elected, especially given how 2ch has done stuff like almost getting Masashi Tashiro as Time's 2001 person of the year.
He does sound really awesome when you pair him with music from Dragonball Z!
This is a much better summary.
The issue is whether mandatory price floors should automatically be considered anticompetitive price fixing. Even if the case ruled in favor for Leegin, one could still sue under the Sherman Act if they can establish that the price floor has an anti-competitive effect.
Many Slashdotters complain about how old laws adversely affect society when they don't keep up with the times. I think this is one of those cases, as current economic theory states that price floors aren't automatically bad (the US, for example, keeps price floors on agricultural products to prevent another mass deflation of prices as seen in the Great Depression).
That's the famous Japanese comedy tv show Downtown's Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (This ain't no job for kids). The ref and the last guy in the red are Hamada and Matsumoto of the group Downtown.
The show's kinda like Jackass, only they've been around for much longer and they show a lot of variety (including Abbot and Costello type bits). Very funny indeed.
There is most certainly a market for this.
For example, I actually detest Street Fighter III, Third Strike but look at:
The Infamous Daigo Parry
KO versus Daigo
which I admit were some of the greatest gaming footage I had ever seen. Listen to how the audience goes nuts during the entire thing; it was like watching art unravel before your eyes. The most telling thing was that a lot of the people in the audience knew aboslutely nothing about the game, but were going nuts anyways.
I also think a game show like Game Center CX from Japan would work well in the states. They take a comedian who plays through retro games and attempts to beat them before midnight. Arino Shinya's attempt to go through Ghouls and Goblins and his reactions to and comments on the game were pretty hilarious.
The USPTO is obligated to publish patent applications 18 months after filing. Given their backlog of software patents, they usually don't address the merits of one until after 33 months or so after filing. That is why you might see some strange looking applications.
Only a very few states, as far as I know.
Generally, statutory rape is a strict liability crime in the US. Mistake of age is not a defense.
It's true! One of my professors wears a bright pink collared shirt with a purple vest every other day. All the guys are scared of him......
...so long as you show stuff that is entertaining not just to the hard core gamers but to the masses as well.
Like Daigo Umehara parrying out of certain death
When I was attending Junior High a long time ago, our social science teacher would tell us stories about how the school was haunted by a ghost that had followed him from a previous job. He went on to say how the ghost was very mischevious and that he would make doors fly open and objects fly. We all laughed and thought his stories were amusing, but we never thought they were real.
Until one day... during my science class, a vial which was located on an upper shelf inexplicably *levitated* itself to the middle of the classroom in such slow motion that everyone's attention was immediately diverted to this strange phenomenon. Without warning, the vial then flung itself into the chalkboard at the front of the classroom at an extremely high speed, shattering itself.
That poor science teacher never came back after that. Although I don't believe in ghosts at all, even to this day, I can't explain how in the world something like that could happen, or how something like that could be engineered.
The reason Japan has one of the lowest birthrates among teenagers is because they most likely have the highest abortion rate in the world. Unfortunately, most of the statistics will show otherwise, simply because in Japanese culture, teenage pregnancy is an extreme shame so these kinds of statistics will be severely underreported.
Less sex than Americans? You've got to be kidding me This is a country that has rampant problems with Enjo Kosai (prostitution among young girls, mostly junior high and high schoolers). You can honestly believe a culture where showing sexual content and harsh language to children have no effect; as a result many teenagers in Japan don't think things like Enjo Kosai are wrong.
In any case, you could be held liable in a civil action. Purchasing a stolen item, even in good faith, makes you liable for conversion of chattels. The true owner can sue you under that tort.
That's one of the basics of American tort law. The social reasoning behind it is to encourage people to do due diligence and be wary of what they buy and to prevent thieves from profiting off of stolen property.
Actually in this situation, you would liable for the tort of conversion, even if you were a purchaser in good faith (i.e. you didn't know that the laptop was stolen). You could get taken to civil court.
This is one of the basics of American tort law. I'm surprised that there are people who still don't know this.
Your boss is ALWAYS dumber than you. By induction, that makes the CEO the dumbest person in the whole company.