":The employees bought them before the store opened. This should never be allowed. "
Likely it was this one. My wife worked as security at Sears for a span, and it was routine to allow associates to purchase items at sale price (minus an employee discount) before the store opened.
Fair? No.
Did I tell her to grab an Xbox 360 for immediate resale on eBay? Betcherass I did, but they were all gone by the time her shift started 1/2 hour before the store opened. Other employees came in early.
"IMPORTANT NOTE: Most educators and professionals do not consider it appropriate to use tertiary sources such as encyclopedias as a sole source for any information -- citing an encyclopedia as an important reference in footnotes or bibliographies may result in censure or a failing grade. Wikipedia articles should be used for background information, as a reference for correct terminology and search terms, and as a starting point for further research. "
So, it's not a proper resource, and it probably will hurt you if you use them, but here are handy pre-packaged citations for you to cut and paste into your paper.
I've always caught a whiff of hypocrisy about Wikipedia - this makes it a stench.
I work for a Very Large Charitable Organization, and a number of years ago we wrote a software application in house - it worked OK, but never really well. When it came time to replace it, the word came down - WE SHALL USE COTS! One little problem - our real world application is literally one-of-a-kind. NO ONE made a commercial version of our software that did what we needed it to do. But since the directive was COTS only, we bought the next best thing, and are now having the vendor modify it (so much for the OTS part). Now it's late, over budget, still doesn't work, and we are seriously considering just throwing the whole thing away and hiring the developers to write In House 2.0.
COTS is to avoid $600 toilet seats, not things which are nearly unique.
One picture clearly shows a transmitter dish pointing directly at the Earth, which is the source of the navigational data for the black helicopters, as relayed by UFO's.
I was on a construction site, and we had just gotten computers. After a while, one started acting funny, and we called corporate IT, who sent a tech. When he opened the case, he found:
1) a 1/4" layer of red dust, compliments of the dry conditions during sitework, and 2) a health layer of "chocolate jimmies" scatered through the case.
After that, we opened up all of them, and found the same thing. Then we opened up the dot matrix printers - not only was their a layer of dust and mouse crap, but the mice had decided to "sample" the foam sound insulation. They took a bite and then spit it out - about a thousand times.
For all the abuse, the IBM pc's and laptops, Okidata dot matrixes (matrices?), and HP 5&6 laser printers barely missed a beat.
"After polio was irradicated in the United States, it is true that the live-attenuated vaccine at the time caused more disease than it prevented."
And you know why they used the liev virus vaccine? Because sometime after WWII, parents turned into pussies and didn't want to subject their kid to a shot, and a sugar cube with the live virus made things so much easier. This was the generation that raised the baby boom as well.
The "Greatest Generation" may have kicked ass at war and worked hard at peace, but their child rearing skills kinda sucked.
Making the laws:"We must ban these images...Think of the Children"
Enforcing the laws:"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client is innocent of assault because the violent videogame he played has been scientifically proven to have reduced his capacity to control his impulses."
Bullshit. Society makes individuals do things that are slightly more risky for themselves all the time, when the potential and actual harm to the other members is so much greater.
Take driving a car. I am a competent driver. I am putting myself at risk of being hit by another car when I am driving. So to decrease that risk, I want to decrease my exposure, so I drive faster so as to minimize my time on the road. Taht works as long as every other sucker drives slowly. But every other sucker will do what I do, in their nominal self interest - drive faster. So now everyone is driving at a high rate of speed, which is manifestly more dangerous than everyone driving at a lesser speed. So as a society we have decided to set speed limits which, while minimally increasing my risk by keeping me on the road longer, have a far greater impact on society by lowering the total damage (Please note this isn't an endorsement of the rediculously low speed limits in the US)
Same with vaccinations - the risk to an individual child is miniscule, compared to the damage that was being experienced before vaccinations. Someone else posted the stats on measles before widespread vaccinations - they were certainly not less than the risks from a vaccine reaction.
How about this - we make vaccination for measles optional, but on the condition that everyone who opts out has their name put in a hat, and periodically names are drawn out mimicking the statistical frequency of pre-vaccination measles. Then that child is infected with measles and isolated. That way, those who choose to gamble can pay the price of admission and not have the burden shouldered by others.
How cruel, you say? No crueller than purposely denying children vaccines because their parents live in a selfish neo-libertarian fantasy world without a real concept of what that really means in terms of risks as well as rewards.
I'm reminded of a _Loveline_ episode I listened to a few years ago. A girl called in and was concerned because her boyfriend had given her a facial and some got in her eye, and now it was sore and red a few days later.
Dr. Drew's advise? "Go to a doctor - it could be really serious - syphilliis, etc."
Girl: "But what do I tell him?"
Drew: "Tell him you got fluid in your eye while having sex. He'll understand - they see it all the time"
Girl: "But, but..."
Followed by 15 minutes of her coming up with reasons why she couldn't see a doctor. My reaction was, why the hell did she call an advise show, ask for advise, and is now arguing with the advise? What did she expect, he was going to write her a prescription for Cum-Be-Gone over the air?
1) the DMCA allows for safe harbor IF ISP's don't otherwise filter content. So if they start filtering copyright, they can be held liable for other illegalities - 419 scams, stock fraud, child porn.
2) The **AA's will therefore lobby for an exception to the DMCA for their stuff.
Of course they are against it - since almost 100% of the kids in the US are vaccinated, their precious darlings have little chance of catching one of those diseases. They are relying on everyone else to protect them.
Now, take away the requirement. For a few years there's no effect, but as the percentage of unvaccinated kids increases, outbreaks start up. And now the kids that did get vaccines are at risk, because they are not perfect, and can be overridden by enough exposure.
So now my kid gets sick because some parent decides they are somehow different than the rest of us. I'll go along with it, as long as the rest of the libertarian ideal is met as well, and I get to extract my own justice.
Some things only work if everyone does them, and vaccination is one of them.
"And here's why partisanship is such a bad idea. You admit that Hillary has done more for NY in a few years than most NY senators do in a lifetime. You go on to say that she would have done this well in any random state."
Nope, I didn't say that. The GP stated that, and I wasn't challenging his belief, but that doesn't mean I believe it. I was pointing out that Clinton's primary motive for her actions is helping herself, NOT the people of NY. And motives are definitley domething to look at when deciding a president. Did the people of NY benefit from her (primarily) selfish actions? The GP thinks so (I have my doubts), but he should certainly not labor under the illusion that she actually gives a shit about her constituents.
Mind you, I believe MOST senators, and a majority of Reps, have long ceased caring about their actual constituents, regardless of "what they have done" for them. They serve their shadow constituents - corporations, unions, special interest groups, and campaign donors. This makes Clinton just another hack, and not nearly as special as her supporters have been led to believe.
It's slightly more complicated - the enveloped machine sort fine on the outbound trip, but had a tendency to jam up the machines on the return trip, because of improper hand sealing by the end user. I won't defend the design, but the problem is only half as bad as implied.
Compounding this, the local post offices were doing the special handling ad hoc - after enough machine jams they said "screw it - pull all of the Netflix customer returns and hand sort." On an individual post office basis, no big deal - but when summed across the organization it adds up. Probably also the reason it took so long for USPS to notice - each local post office was just dealing with it themselves and not reporting it as a systemic problem.
"I always knew Slashdot was a slut, but God Damn!"
The word you are looking for is "whore" - someone who will spread their legs for anyone in exchange for money. A "slut" spreds their legs to *everyone* for free.
But a "public policy debate" isn't a jury - anyone should be able to participate. Is Walsh now not a member of the public because something happened to him that gives him a certain perspective on the issue? That would be like saying that computer geeks should be disqualified from debating the merits of the SCO case because they have special knowledge of computers and operating systems.
Now if you want to argue that Walsh shouldn't have special acess to the lawmaking process, I'll agree with that, but only on geenral principles - NO ONE should have special access. But that's a different debate.
In fairness to John Walsh, the reason he is so nuts on the issue is that his son John was abducted and killed and, per Wikipedia, "sixteen days after the abduction, his severed head was found in a drainage canal more than 100 miles away from home. His body was never recovered." So, yeah, I cut him a break, although he is starting to act a little like Sarah Brady.
The politician? He's probably more likely to be the one to abuse children than protect them in my opinion.
And she'll scrape you off her shoes when she has no further use for you. Remember, this is a person who had no connection to the city or state of NY before she decided to run for senate; if NY's residency laws for candidates were even remotely sane, she would have gone to another state, and someone else would be talking about "done more for XYX in the few years she's had than most XYZ senators do in a lifetime".
And what happens when the presidential election is over? If she wins, her only use for NY will be as a source for campaign donations for 2012; if she loses, she'll probably decide to retire from the running for President..err, I mean, the Senate. And NY will be stuck with another low seniority senator.
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":The employees bought them before the store opened. This should never be allowed. "
Likely it was this one. My wife worked as security at Sears for a span, and it was routine to allow associates to purchase items at sale price (minus an employee discount) before the store opened.
Fair? No.
Did I tell her to grab an Xbox 360 for immediate resale on eBay? Betcherass I did, but they were all gone by the time her shift started 1/2 hour before the store opened. Other employees came in early.
I especially love the disclaimer:
"IMPORTANT NOTE: Most educators and professionals do not consider it appropriate to use tertiary sources such as encyclopedias as a sole source for any information -- citing an encyclopedia as an important reference in footnotes or bibliographies may result in censure or a failing grade. Wikipedia articles should be used for background information, as a reference for correct terminology and search terms, and as a starting point for further research. "
So, it's not a proper resource, and it probably will hurt you if you use them, but here are handy pre-packaged citations for you to cut and paste into your paper.
I've always caught a whiff of hypocrisy about Wikipedia - this makes it a stench.
I work for a Very Large Charitable Organization, and a number of years ago we wrote a software application in house - it worked OK, but never really well. When it came time to replace it, the word came down - WE SHALL USE COTS! One little problem - our real world application is literally one-of-a-kind. NO ONE made a commercial version of our software that did what we needed it to do. But since the directive was COTS only, we bought the next best thing, and are now having the vendor modify it (so much for the OTS part). Now it's late, over budget, still doesn't work, and we are seriously considering just throwing the whole thing away and hiring the developers to write In House 2.0.
COTS is to avoid $600 toilet seats, not things which are nearly unique.
"People have been unlocking their Tilts right and left with zero hassle."
Sory - I read that as "unlocking their Tits" and flashed back to the horrors of rear hook bras, and the difficulty removing them in a suave manner.
One picture clearly shows a transmitter dish pointing directly at the Earth, which is the source of the navigational data for the black helicopters, as relayed by UFO's.
Crater? That's what they WANT you to think.
A shitload of us, and you're late - the Niven post is above. Get moving - we haven't come up with nearly enough puppeteer jokes yet.
"By what force are these particles packed together into a solid mass?"
Ummm...gravity? At least, I think it works out in the rest of the universe the same way it works here (see Sedimentary Rocks).
Bastard! I was all ready with "So can we call them Ringworlds?"
Jerry Penacoli, is that you?
I was on a construction site, and we had just gotten computers. After a while, one started acting funny, and we called corporate IT, who sent a tech. When he opened the case, he found:
1) a 1/4" layer of red dust, compliments of the dry conditions during sitework, and
2) a health layer of "chocolate jimmies" scatered through the case.
After that, we opened up all of them, and found the same thing. Then we opened up the dot matrix printers - not only was their a layer of dust and mouse crap, but the mice had decided to "sample" the foam sound insulation. They took a bite and then spit it out - about a thousand times.
For all the abuse, the IBM pc's and laptops, Okidata dot matrixes (matrices?), and HP 5&6 laser printers barely missed a beat.
"After polio was irradicated in the United States, it is true that the live-attenuated vaccine at the time caused more disease than it prevented."
And you know why they used the liev virus vaccine? Because sometime after WWII, parents turned into pussies and didn't want to subject their kid to a shot, and a sugar cube with the live virus made things so much easier. This was the generation that raised the baby boom as well.
The "Greatest Generation" may have kicked ass at war and worked hard at peace, but their child rearing skills kinda sucked.
I saw a bumber sticker: "If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then drug dealers are unlicensed pharmacists"
The twin battle cries:
Making the laws:"We must ban these images...Think of the Children"
Enforcing the laws:"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client is innocent of assault because the violent videogame he played has been scientifically proven to have reduced his capacity to control his impulses."
Bullshit. Society makes individuals do things that are slightly more risky for themselves all the time, when the potential and actual harm to the other members is so much greater.
Take driving a car. I am a competent driver. I am putting myself at risk of being hit by another car when I am driving. So to decrease that risk, I want to decrease my exposure, so I drive faster so as to minimize my time on the road. Taht works as long as every other sucker drives slowly. But every other sucker will do what I do, in their nominal self interest - drive faster. So now everyone is driving at a high rate of speed, which is manifestly more dangerous than everyone driving at a lesser speed. So as a society we have decided to set speed limits which, while minimally increasing my risk by keeping me on the road longer, have a far greater impact on society by lowering the total damage (Please note this isn't an endorsement of the rediculously low speed limits in the US)
Same with vaccinations - the risk to an individual child is miniscule, compared to the damage that was being experienced before vaccinations. Someone else posted the stats on measles before widespread vaccinations - they were certainly not less than the risks from a vaccine reaction.
How about this - we make vaccination for measles optional, but on the condition that everyone who opts out has their name put in a hat, and periodically names are drawn out mimicking the statistical frequency of pre-vaccination measles. Then that child is infected with measles and isolated. That way, those who choose to gamble can pay the price of admission and not have the burden shouldered by others.
How cruel, you say? No crueller than purposely denying children vaccines because their parents live in a selfish neo-libertarian fantasy world without a real concept of what that really means in terms of risks as well as rewards.
I'm reminded of a _Loveline_ episode I listened to a few years ago. A girl called in and was concerned because her boyfriend had given her a facial and some got in her eye, and now it was sore and red a few days later.
Dr. Drew's advise? "Go to a doctor - it could be really serious - syphilliis, etc."
Girl: "But what do I tell him?"
Drew: "Tell him you got fluid in your eye while having sex. He'll understand - they see it all the time"
Girl: "But, but..."
Followed by 15 minutes of her coming up with reasons why she couldn't see a doctor. My reaction was, why the hell did she call an advise show, ask for advise, and is now arguing with the advise? What did she expect, he was going to write her a prescription for Cum-Be-Gone over the air?
1) the DMCA allows for safe harbor IF ISP's don't otherwise filter content. So if they start filtering copyright, they can be held liable for other illegalities - 419 scams, stock fraud, child porn.
2) The **AA's will therefore lobby for an exception to the DMCA for their stuff.
3) Congress will grant it.
Any questions?
Of course they are against it - since almost 100% of the kids in the US are vaccinated, their precious darlings have little chance of catching one of those diseases. They are relying on everyone else to protect them.
Now, take away the requirement. For a few years there's no effect, but as the percentage of unvaccinated kids increases, outbreaks start up. And now the kids that did get vaccines are at risk, because they are not perfect, and can be overridden by enough exposure.
So now my kid gets sick because some parent decides they are somehow different than the rest of us. I'll go along with it, as long as the rest of the libertarian ideal is met as well, and I get to extract my own justice.
Some things only work if everyone does them, and vaccination is one of them.
Thanks for the Niven-Pournelle quote - it's one of my favorite phrases.
"And here's why partisanship is such a bad idea. You admit that Hillary has done more for NY in a few years than most NY senators do in a lifetime. You go on to say that she would have done this well in any random state."
Nope, I didn't say that. The GP stated that, and I wasn't challenging his belief, but that doesn't mean I believe it. I was pointing out that Clinton's primary motive for her actions is helping herself, NOT the people of NY. And motives are definitley domething to look at when deciding a president. Did the people of NY benefit from her (primarily) selfish actions? The GP thinks so (I have my doubts), but he should certainly not labor under the illusion that she actually gives a shit about her constituents.
Mind you, I believe MOST senators, and a majority of Reps, have long ceased caring about their actual constituents, regardless of "what they have done" for them. They serve their shadow constituents - corporations, unions, special interest groups, and campaign donors. This makes Clinton just another hack, and not nearly as special as her supporters have been led to believe.
"I've had a something that gets fatter the more you stretch it for as long as I can remember."
But I'm guessing your partner doesn't see the end result as a bomb blast - more like a squib.
It's slightly more complicated - the enveloped machine sort fine on the outbound trip, but had a tendency to jam up the machines on the return trip, because of improper hand sealing by the end user. I won't defend the design, but the problem is only half as bad as implied.
Compounding this, the local post offices were doing the special handling ad hoc - after enough machine jams they said "screw it - pull all of the Netflix customer returns and hand sort." On an individual post office basis, no big deal - but when summed across the organization it adds up. Probably also the reason it took so long for USPS to notice - each local post office was just dealing with it themselves and not reporting it as a systemic problem.
"I always knew Slashdot was a slut, but God Damn!"
The word you are looking for is "whore" - someone who will spread their legs for anyone in exchange for money. A "slut" spreds their legs to *everyone* for free.
But a "public policy debate" isn't a jury - anyone should be able to participate. Is Walsh now not a member of the public because something happened to him that gives him a certain perspective on the issue? That would be like saying that computer geeks should be disqualified from debating the merits of the SCO case because they have special knowledge of computers and operating systems.
Now if you want to argue that Walsh shouldn't have special acess to the lawmaking process, I'll agree with that, but only on geenral principles - NO ONE should have special access. But that's a different debate.
In fairness to John Walsh, the reason he is so nuts on the issue is that his son John was abducted and killed and, per Wikipedia, "sixteen days after the abduction, his severed head was found in a drainage canal more than 100 miles away from home. His body was never recovered." So, yeah, I cut him a break, although he is starting to act a little like Sarah Brady.
The politician? He's probably more likely to be the one to abuse children than protect them in my opinion.
And she'll scrape you off her shoes when she has no further use for you. Remember, this is a person who had no connection to the city or state of NY before she decided to run for senate; if NY's residency laws for candidates were even remotely sane, she would have gone to another state, and someone else would be talking about "done more for XYX in the few years she's had than most XYZ senators do in a lifetime".
And what happens when the presidential election is over? If she wins, her only use for NY will be as a source for campaign donations for 2012; if she loses, she'll probably decide to retire from the running for President..err, I mean, the Senate. And NY will be stuck with another low seniority senator.