If there wasn't some random kid swapped in to either replace a dead child or abducted child for political reasons. Which would, of course, have probably been noted by someone, but with royalty, you never know.
Personally, I think the manufacturers should just set up some regional test-drive facilities. Or partner with car rental companies to offer such services. You don't need a dealership for a test drive.
My experience with communicating, even within offices, is that if the communications received are of little or no value, people stop communicating. Whether they are across the hall or two hours from the office.
Two problems. First, a congressman does not have the authority to barricade a monument. Second, that does not explain the countless instances of the same kind of barricading happening across the nation.
There has been a solid effort to specifically prevent discussion of the constitutional role of the House and "the power of the purse". It's really the only relevant angle from which to analyse this issue. The "hostage" rhetoric should have been rejected as nonsense a long time ago.
You are correct that elections have consequences, and this past election had the consequence of a Republican majority in in the House. In the House, they're not the minority party at all. And when it comes down to it, the House is the only part of the government that has the authority to initiate appropriations. So no, they're not in the minority where this matter is concerned. They have passed legitimate budgets, they simply weren't to the liking of the controlling party of the Senate and White House.
The problem isn't one of who moved the barricades. The problem is that we have a president who expended government resources to barricade a monument with a day-to-day operating cost of precisely zero.
Oh, good. Ad-hominem attacks based on terminological grounds. I was afraid we were going to see intelligent discussion. Thanks for helping avert such a terrible outcome.
You mean Obama's corruption in barricading an unstaffed, open-air memorial (among a bunch of other locations throughout the nation) that have never, ever been closed during a government shutdown and actually cost more to "close" than to leave open? What part of that needs explanation?
Wow. You're super good at broad generalizations unrelated to the topic at hand. I'm glad you're here to take this conversation off-topic and make broad generalizations to counter a remark that was clearly referring to the topic at hand, which is to say, the uses of a broad intelligence-gathering system.
The thing is, so many services these days are such pure bullshit that they are essentially unsustainable in the long-term.
I hate to say it, but as a libertarian and staunch capitalist, I'm not seeing much hope for traditional economics in the automation age. It's not a digital age, it's not an "information age", it's an automation age. The only way an economy will be compatible with the extreme level of automation we are seeing today is through some sort of cooperative society ensuring the continued operation of and distribution of goods, services, and in some way ensuring that everyone does not simply abandon the infrastructure and somehow maintains/builds it.
The more we automate, the more we have to abandon the idea of "full-time" work taking up a majority of our time (or even being tethered to a particular office), and if we wish to maintain some semblance of capitalism, we have to compensate at a livable level for less time spent working. By automatically treating every "full-time" job as a 40 hour a week job, we've artificially raised the amount of a person's time jobs actually take while at the same time automating the ever-living crap out of everything to where the job takes far less, and people just idle or work slower to fill the time.
I could come in two times a week and get just as much done, probably more, at my present job were it not for the artificial expectation of a 40-hour week. When I started this job, it was probably a good 30 hour a week job, with 40 required. A little bit of automation here and there and I could get by with a good ten hours a week if it wouldn't rock the boat to do so. Why? Things are running smoothly, mostly automated now, with occasional and mostly routine tweaking here and there with a small handful of user support that could be 90% handled remotely with a quick phone call to wherever I happened to be.
Is the job I do important to the company I work for? It's actually entirely vital. The company would crumble without it. But that doesn't make it a 40-hour job. It just means I sit at a desk for 40 hours wishing I were playing guitar, hiking, camping, or playing hockey while poking around the network trying to find something to theoretically make slightly more optimal, even though pretty much all our equipment is overkill and the optimizations make very little difference in any real sense. And the truly sick thing is, the automation in question could scale to a company ten or even a hundred times our size without needing to add more than one or two people in my role. If there were enough need for individual user support for even those additions. I seldom hear from the same user twice in a month.
You're dealing with assumptions that aren't stated here. Nowhere did Bodz specify only in a spacecraft. Colonization could find extensive use for beer.
It's also a great way to be sure that any terrorists configure their bombs to be triggered by these machines, rendering them inoperable and hampering cargo operations.
I'm genuinely amazed that terrorists haven't blown up a ton of TSA checkpoints at airports just to cripple air travel. Screwing up infrastructure and inconveniencing people are the terrorists' bread and butter.
The irony is that they make these complaints while others complain that video games are getting too realistic. You can't please everyone, and if you can't please everyone, choose to please those who actually buy and play the video games.
Certainly not understood the way we understand it today. Really, the biggest failure (of many) on TEPCO's part was in its backup generator system placement and design. Ironically, this system was much newer than the rest of the facility, but set forth the chain of failures that led to the multiple meltdowns.
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If there wasn't some random kid swapped in to either replace a dead child or abducted child for political reasons. Which would, of course, have probably been noted by someone, but with royalty, you never know.
Personally, I think the manufacturers should just set up some regional test-drive facilities. Or partner with car rental companies to offer such services. You don't need a dealership for a test drive.
My experience with communicating, even within offices, is that if the communications received are of little or no value, people stop communicating. Whether they are across the hall or two hours from the office.
Two problems. First, a congressman does not have the authority to barricade a monument. Second, that does not explain the countless instances of the same kind of barricading happening across the nation.
There has been a solid effort to specifically prevent discussion of the constitutional role of the House and "the power of the purse". It's really the only relevant angle from which to analyse this issue. The "hostage" rhetoric should have been rejected as nonsense a long time ago.
You are correct that elections have consequences, and this past election had the consequence of a Republican majority in in the House. In the House, they're not the minority party at all. And when it comes down to it, the House is the only part of the government that has the authority to initiate appropriations. So no, they're not in the minority where this matter is concerned. They have passed legitimate budgets, they simply weren't to the liking of the controlling party of the Senate and White House.
The problem isn't one of who moved the barricades. The problem is that we have a president who expended government resources to barricade a monument with a day-to-day operating cost of precisely zero.
Oh, good. Ad-hominem attacks based on terminological grounds. I was afraid we were going to see intelligent discussion. Thanks for helping avert such a terrible outcome.
You mean Obama's corruption in barricading an unstaffed, open-air memorial (among a bunch of other locations throughout the nation) that have never, ever been closed during a government shutdown and actually cost more to "close" than to leave open? What part of that needs explanation?
You need an optometrist.
Sure, they're corrupt. But that doesn't justify attributing others' specific corruption to them.
Wow. You're super good at broad generalizations unrelated to the topic at hand. I'm glad you're here to take this conversation off-topic and make broad generalizations to counter a remark that was clearly referring to the topic at hand, which is to say, the uses of a broad intelligence-gathering system.
You must practice law.
As if we needed more proof. I can think of some WWII vets who have even better proof.
The thing is, so many services these days are such pure bullshit that they are essentially unsustainable in the long-term.
I hate to say it, but as a libertarian and staunch capitalist, I'm not seeing much hope for traditional economics in the automation age. It's not a digital age, it's not an "information age", it's an automation age. The only way an economy will be compatible with the extreme level of automation we are seeing today is through some sort of cooperative society ensuring the continued operation of and distribution of goods, services, and in some way ensuring that everyone does not simply abandon the infrastructure and somehow maintains/builds it.
The more we automate, the more we have to abandon the idea of "full-time" work taking up a majority of our time (or even being tethered to a particular office), and if we wish to maintain some semblance of capitalism, we have to compensate at a livable level for less time spent working. By automatically treating every "full-time" job as a 40 hour a week job, we've artificially raised the amount of a person's time jobs actually take while at the same time automating the ever-living crap out of everything to where the job takes far less, and people just idle or work slower to fill the time.
I could come in two times a week and get just as much done, probably more, at my present job were it not for the artificial expectation of a 40-hour week. When I started this job, it was probably a good 30 hour a week job, with 40 required. A little bit of automation here and there and I could get by with a good ten hours a week if it wouldn't rock the boat to do so. Why? Things are running smoothly, mostly automated now, with occasional and mostly routine tweaking here and there with a small handful of user support that could be 90% handled remotely with a quick phone call to wherever I happened to be.
Is the job I do important to the company I work for? It's actually entirely vital. The company would crumble without it. But that doesn't make it a 40-hour job. It just means I sit at a desk for 40 hours wishing I were playing guitar, hiking, camping, or playing hockey while poking around the network trying to find something to theoretically make slightly more optimal, even though pretty much all our equipment is overkill and the optimizations make very little difference in any real sense. And the truly sick thing is, the automation in question could scale to a company ten or even a hundred times our size without needing to add more than one or two people in my role. If there were enough need for individual user support for even those additions. I seldom hear from the same user twice in a month.
No, evil is pretty objective. It's "good" where it gets subjective.
You're dealing with assumptions that aren't stated here. Nowhere did Bodz specify only in a spacecraft. Colonization could find extensive use for beer.
I'm less convinced that it will actually be used against the evil. Especially in the resulting balance of use.
It's also a great way to be sure that any terrorists configure their bombs to be triggered by these machines, rendering them inoperable and hampering cargo operations.
I'm genuinely amazed that terrorists haven't blown up a ton of TSA checkpoints at airports just to cripple air travel. Screwing up infrastructure and inconveniencing people are the terrorists' bread and butter.
The irony is that they make these complaints while others complain that video games are getting too realistic. You can't please everyone, and if you can't please everyone, choose to please those who actually buy and play the video games.
Certainly not understood the way we understand it today. Really, the biggest failure (of many) on TEPCO's part was in its backup generator system placement and design. Ironically, this system was much newer than the rest of the facility, but set forth the chain of failures that led to the multiple meltdowns.
I can agree on that particular point.
No, the FOIA only involves the disclosure of existing data, not the creation of data to facilitate public disclosure.
My problem is the way the government hides secrets behind secrets behind secrets, preventing the questions from being asked in the first place.
We'd have to be pretty specific about what "made public" means, as well as "government data" and "personal data", but I think that's a good start.
Fixed that for you.