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  1. Yeah, my college professor told me they just keep it in a giant Scrooge-McDuckian vault... just sitting there doing nothing, 100% liquid capital. Please learn basic economics, it will bring you happiness in life.

  2. Re: The humanities strike back on Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask Venezuela how not reading and appreciating Ayn Rand turns out... or just cater to government clients at work for a year...

  3. Re: Remote vs. on-site on Recruiters Are Still Complaining About No-Shows At Interviews (kyma.com) · · Score: 1

    Always go onsite and look around. More than a single visit as well if possible. One office I interviewed with went as far as pre-populating all the computer desks they expected to fill with monitors and telling me that everyone was away at customer sites or meetings. It wasn't hard to know something was up and some quick research on LinkedIn confirmed they only had 1/5 the staff they wanted me to think they had.

  4. Re: Don't no-show on Recruiters Are Still Complaining About No-Shows At Interviews (kyma.com) · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of this is due to how badly we've destroyed non-corporate ownership of businesses. I hope new inheritance and other policies may reverse this in the future.

  5. Re: Climate has never stayed constant on World Is Finally Waking Up To Climate Change, Says 'Hothouse Earth' Author (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So, was Galileo an intellectual or an anti-intellectual in your mind? If he was the intellectual, what does that make the established intellectuals?

  6. Re: too bad on Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, what is the bigger part of that story: Venezuela still has fire departments... Or The apartments still have gas...

  7. Terrain mapping for Cruise Missiles and Satelites, on Some Scientists Work With China, But NASA Won't (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.google.com/amp/www... NASA is a horrible entity for security given it's past failures. They also repurpose a lot of defense tech for their programs. Isolating them is a minimum precaution. Long term, a cultural change needs to occur to align the staff with American interests.

  8. Re: GOOD RIDDANCE TURD on Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This is why we need more Republicans and Trump people in office! Suddenly the same thing that was standard practice for at least the last 8 years and probably the last 80 gets looked at through a new lens filter, suddenly its okay to notice it and call it out as wrong and something people want to see stopped! How wonderful, we just need to keep this up for another term and maybe we'll get some where on corruption and reform. or we can have another Democrat in office and suddenly the shade will come down and this will be "perfectly acceptable" At least we can have the conversation now.

  9. Re: GOOD RIDDANCE TURD on Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    All major government officials hand out some perks to other counterparts and such, its described in any number of the articles on the subject, they came from the same supplier the EPA used under Obama and are the same pen. Every bill that is signed has dozens of pens given out after signing it. The cone of silence is a SCIF, they are required for any secure government communication and are found in every government facility in DC, if you are attending any sort of daily brief then you would need one. Also, if you need secure communications to other agencies or in the event of an emergency, then you need one. Every cabinet member of other person in the line of succession should be able to assume the job instantly. It's not like you get to attend a 2 week "get up to speed" class when something very bad happens. Russia again, any day now they'll show how he and Putin used carrier pigeons to coordinate their attacks on Hillary, just wait, it's coming... Or someone who sat in meeting after meeting listening to the things typed into those leaked emails about how they were going to rig everything against Bernie eventually got fed up and grabbed a thumbdrive... I'm thinking that the people who had control over billions of dollars of settlements, superfund funds, and other cash and were experts on converting it to suit their needs really didn't like that the people who were to lead them had to take a loyalty oath against Trump as republicans or with Hillary as democrats and found themselves universally frozen out of control of these agencies. I think a lot of people had their meal tickets cut off. I would definitely like to see their meal tickets totally cut off and the EPA do real work without causing any more environmental disasters through gross incompetence. No more buddy/buddy "dump your *hit into the great lakes as much as you want Chicago/Milwaukee, we're too busy going after the wrong people who let a silt fence fall down during the rain and took 3 hours to repair it." Look up the biggest environmental crimes in the US and find the government sanctioning them because "they mean well and need a break" I'd like that to stop.

  10. Re: GOOD RIDDANCE TURD on Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That is accepting gifts, not giving them out. Look at how a president signs a bill using a dozen different pens that are then distributed, this is continued at every level of government. The pens came from the same place the EPA has always bought them, everyone in an executive function serves partially as an ambassador... Our generals meet with other NATO generals and others involved in any number of wars games and exchange things back and forth, so do a dozen other government agencies at every level.

  11. Re: GOOD RIDDANCE TURD on Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    How am I supporting a criminal? Do you know what a criminal is? The pens were ordered from the same source as his predecessor and their predecessor, the booth was properly acquired using the acquisition process. Just because they are investigating every fart the guy ever had in office has no consequence on him being a "criminal" in your eyes. I support the idea that the executive of an agency should have broad powers and that the intent of having a staff that works against him/her and launches a campaign of endless, baseless investigations and stirred up controversy is a bad thing for a democracy. I didn't see anyone not able to criticize Trump or Pruitt, of course, criticize people on the other side and lose your job, business, personal relationships, etc... Criticize anything the EPA did prior to Trump (like directly causing several environmental disasters through gross incompetence) and be silenced on a dozen social platforms and accused of being a racist right-wing lunatic...

  12. Re: GOOD RIDDANCE TURD on Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I like the whole "look at his expensive pens" deal, I don't want the EPA administrator handing a $.50 pen to his worldwide counterparts left over from a job fair. Also, the whole"cone of silence." I like the fact that a cabinet position is taken seriously because that is direct in the line of succession, which means keeping up with top secret briefings and emails, as well as having a security detail and considering your travel. This is part of living in a nation with real enemies. The bottom line is the EPA administrates a lot of money to superfund and everything else which lefties have an entire infrastructure built around. He is a threat to that infrastructure and they need him out. The action now is to get someone in there who is 100x worse for the staff. The staff of federal agencies picking who leads them wasn't in my copy of the constitution and seems to be a very dangerous trend.

  13. Re: It's not the economy. on In This Economy, Quitters Are Winning (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up "Arrogant Producer." The goal is to remove them from your team as soon as possible and whenever you can, or hire them at all. Be introspective in that way.

  14. Re: What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com... There are other references but the bottom line is that you have a reusable bag that sometimes houses meat and sometimes houses vegetables. That is not a good combination. Plastic bags exist for a reason and most of the world can deal with the waste responsibly. As far the hygiene goes, San Francisco is joining so many other places in having open-air homeless encampments with their own dumps and no proper sanitation. Watch for another round of infectious disease this summer. People living near garbage and rats and fleas leads to not-good things. This is the direction of many progressive policies.

  15. Re: What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    Yes, reusable bags, which fall apart when washed and need someone to carefully segregate meats/vegetables and hope clerks can figure it out each time. Which leads to disease outbreaks after plastic bag bans. You can throw out the bagsbut since each bag is the same energy/materials as 50 plastic bags....

  16. Re: What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 2

    Sure, but a whole lot of them didnâ(TM)t live and died from Salmonella and other diseases. There will be an uptick as always happens in areas banning plastic bags. Taking away sanitation in all forms does seem like a progressive goal given the current state of California.

  17. Re: I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at the Foxconn project near Milwaukee before you say that. It is an all out war to kill the project as soon as possible

  18. My definition of an alarm is a temporal pattern set up to alert occupants. Not the sound of rushing gas.

  19. Pro tip: fire alarms make noise, fire protection systems put out fires.... this was the latter. A clean agent release system.

  20. Re: Free speech doesn't mean only the speech you on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is that Nazis have won when defending Jews or whomever the "enemy/deplorable" group happens to be is a form of hate speech against their victims. When saying "I support free speech for all groups" is something you can ban on any public forum as "hate speech/support of evil viewpoints" then yes, the Nazi's have won. Fascism and the like require a completely 1-sided public viewpoint and steep penalties for any disagreement (job, personal safety, standing in community, freedom.) Without that power, criticism and free flow of information occur and bring you back to something reasonable.

  21. Re: Free speech doesn't mean only the speech you l on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because itâ(TM)s hard to install fascism without having control of the media. Reddit stating that they will not participate with majority-approved only speech means they need to be crushed.

  22. They exist, gunshot detection systems.

  23. For Men/Women/Other on LinkedIn Users Will Soon Know What Jobs Pay Before Applying for Them (adweek.com) · · Score: 0

    Is the salary automatically adjusted or do women have to apply a factor themselves?

  24. Doesnâ(TM)t matter on NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    In a world where it takes months to find it about any news item that doesnâ(TM)t include a press release or news conference to quote from... does it really matter if someone honestly puts out information openly?

  25. The cataloging and inventory of undesirables used to be their job, I know even the Germans were amazed by their efficiency, now some startup wants to run them out of business.