According to the dictates of poetic justice we should help them kick out the current population of Arizona, provide them with enough firepower to hold off the remaining "three corners" states, and talk about how wonderful it is to have an early-80's style South African "democracy" in the middle of such a desolate cultural wasteland.
I don't really see a downside. For me. Way over here.
Maybe if you lived fifty or a hundred years earlier you might understand...
If you visited LA in the seventies you'd understand. "Kids, no playing outside today. The air isn't breathable." That actually happened. It wasn't that long ago.
The fact that these suckers don't have a near-360 field of vision and matching video helmets shows us that the people in control of this project are assholes.
Isn't the difference between killing and murder just that one is forbidden and the other isn't?
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. -Romans 12:19
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. -Deuteronomy 32:35
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD. -Leviticus 19:18
The bible's take on the subject is pretty clear. Reinterpreting scripture to get what you want isn't exactly a new phenomenon.
Protesting bullfighting while eating meat or dairy products is cynical at best.
I don't believe that eating meat is much more cruel than what an animal could expect in the wild, but I do see a great deal of needless cruelty going into the practice.
The life of a housecat is much better than the life of a stray, but that doesn't mean you should pull its tail. If these guys were to face a bull one-on-one, alone in a field, with just a stick to defend themselves, I might call it a sport*.
We draw localized inferences from economic datasets of enormous magnitude, with many unrecorded inputs. To suggest that we can't draw reasonable inferences through large-scale statistical studies of cloud-seeding suggests a superstition about complexity and chaos indicative of your needing to finish more than just your meteorology classes before you make decrees about what we, as scientists can't do.
He seems to be saying that our understanding of clouds hasn't progressed far enough to even begin something like this. You seem to be saying that economists are scientists. One of you has a problem.
It doesn't seem to me that a conviction establishes the ultimate truth of guilt or innocence, but rather states a point of view. Saying that the Taliban convicted someone of spying doesn't, in my mind, determine whether or not that person actually did such a thing. Just that they convicted him of it. In an ideal world a conviction would always match a true determination of guilt, but as we've seen in America it's perfectly possible to convict and execute an innocent man.
We're saying the same thing, but approaching it from opposite viewpoints, imho.
If an innocent person is executed for spying, he's still been executed for spying. Whether or not he actually did it is irrelevant. He may have been falsely convicted but he has still been convicted.
I am explicitly not making a judgment on whether this is right or wrong, good or bad. I'm just saying that you are semantically incorrect. "Wrongly convicted", or similar, is what you're looking for.
I love the note at the end of the wikipedia article:
Modern usage
More recently, "to beg the question" has been used as a synonym for "to raise the question": for example, "This year's budget deficit is half a trillion dollars. This begs the question, How are we ever going to balance the budget?"
Using the term in this way, although common, is considered incorrect by some usage commentators.
In most of the companies I know, you'd be written up or fired within 8 hours of pulling such a stunt.
Weird. I could see a manager telling kids to settle down and put the shit back. I could also see the manager telling the boss that kids need to blow off steam when they work their asses off. Writing someone up or firing them seems more like an ego move than business sense, but then it seems like a lot of people want to be businessmen more than they want to do business.
He's basically stated that his company isn't willing to pay the going rate for the work he does. They could certainly fill his position, and they might get lucky with some bright kid fresh out of school, but if his boss is competent he'll know that anyone willing to take a cut in pay will also move on at the earliest opportunity. He's not going to get fired for asking for a raise unless there are large problems with the company or the employee.
He could probably go for a minor raise, but the opportunity is ripe for picking up a few quality of life perks. Something that costs the company nothing, like a new job title, would be perfect. Maybe try to weasel some time to work from home or flex hours, or maybe just a new chair.
Being able to point to a spreadsheet showing the increase in workload would be pretty handy.
They went on for ever and they when I lived in Australia and the skies always had little fluffy clouds and they were long and clear and there were lots of stars, at night.
And when it rain it would all turn beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere.
It's neat because I used to look at them all the time when i was little.
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According to the dictates of poetic justice we should help them kick out the current population of Arizona, provide them with enough firepower to hold off the remaining "three corners" states, and talk about how wonderful it is to have an early-80's style South African "democracy" in the middle of such a desolate cultural wasteland.
I don't really see a downside. For me. Way over here.
Unfortunately, most students are too lazy or too stupid to learn on their own and need someone to do the song and the dance going with the lesson.
Yeah, like those shiftless fuckers in first grade. We should let the free market sort this out.
The reference to machines dynamically synthesizing the music based on a director/sound mans input is interesting.
You should pick up one of our modern Casiotone knockoffs on your way back to the seventies.
Maybe if you lived fifty or a hundred years earlier you might understand...
If you visited LA in the seventies you'd understand. "Kids, no playing outside today. The air isn't breathable." That actually happened. It wasn't that long ago.
The fact that these suckers don't have a near-360 field of vision and matching video helmets shows us that the people in control of this project are assholes.
Isn't the difference between killing and murder just that one is forbidden and the other isn't?
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. -Romans 12:19
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. -Deuteronomy 32:35
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD. -Leviticus 19:18
The bible's take on the subject is pretty clear. Reinterpreting scripture to get what you want isn't exactly a new phenomenon.
If we have to have a standing army at least let the soldiers have a conscience and be guided by it. Blind obedience is for nationalists.
That's what they're doing. It's called "charging by the minute" (or megabyte).
It's spelled "charging by the minute" but it's pronounced "collusion".
Protesting bullfighting while eating meat or dairy products is cynical at best.
I don't believe that eating meat is much more cruel than what an animal could expect in the wild, but I do see a great deal of needless cruelty going into the practice.
Here's an interesting article on patent continuation abuse, hot off a google. No idea how accurate it is, but worth reading.
The life of a housecat is much better than the life of a stray, but that doesn't mean you should pull its tail. If these guys were to face a bull one-on-one, alone in a field, with just a stick to defend themselves, I might call it a sport*.
*out in the west it's called "stream fishing"
We draw localized inferences from economic datasets of enormous magnitude, with many unrecorded inputs. To suggest that we can't draw reasonable inferences through large-scale statistical studies of cloud-seeding suggests a superstition about complexity and chaos indicative of your needing to finish more than just your meteorology classes before you make decrees about what we, as scientists can't do.
He seems to be saying that our understanding of clouds hasn't progressed far enough to even begin something like this. You seem to be saying that economists are scientists. One of you has a problem.
I'll consider bullfighting to be a sport when the first undefeated bull retires.
What's the difference between waiting a week in-house and waiting a week for Microsoft?
Oh ok I see where we differ.
It doesn't seem to me that a conviction establishes the ultimate truth of guilt or innocence, but rather states a point of view. Saying that the Taliban convicted someone of spying doesn't, in my mind, determine whether or not that person actually did such a thing. Just that they convicted him of it. In an ideal world a conviction would always match a true determination of guilt, but as we've seen in America it's perfectly possible to convict and execute an innocent man.
We're saying the same thing, but approaching it from opposite viewpoints, imho.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
If an innocent person is executed for spying, he's still been executed for spying. Whether or not he actually did it is irrelevant. He may have been falsely convicted but he has still been convicted.
I am explicitly not making a judgment on whether this is right or wrong, good or bad. I'm just saying that you are semantically incorrect. "Wrongly convicted", or similar, is what you're looking for.
I've got bad news for you.
My calendar ends this december!
I love the note at the end of the wikipedia article:
Modern usage
More recently, "to beg the question" has been used as a synonym for "to raise the question": for example, "This year's budget deficit is half a trillion dollars. This begs the question, How are we ever going to balance the budget?" Using the term in this way, although common, is considered incorrect by some usage commentators.
Zing!
That the new ReiserFS host?
"I've got mine, screw you Jack" is a grown-up attitude?
We need a culling program for sociopaths, and we need it now.
Thanks, now I have the hallelujah chorus stuck in my head.
In most of the companies I know, you'd be written up or fired within 8 hours of pulling such a stunt.
Weird. I could see a manager telling kids to settle down and put the shit back. I could also see the manager telling the boss that kids need to blow off steam when they work their asses off. Writing someone up or firing them seems more like an ego move than business sense, but then it seems like a lot of people want to be businessmen more than they want to do business.
He's basically stated that his company isn't willing to pay the going rate for the work he does. They could certainly fill his position, and they might get lucky with some bright kid fresh out of school, but if his boss is competent he'll know that anyone willing to take a cut in pay will also move on at the earliest opportunity. He's not going to get fired for asking for a raise unless there are large problems with the company or the employee.
He could probably go for a minor raise, but the opportunity is ripe for picking up a few quality of life perks. Something that costs the company nothing, like a new job title, would be perfect. Maybe try to weasel some time to work from home or flex hours, or maybe just a new chair.
Being able to point to a spreadsheet showing the increase in workload would be pretty handy.
They went on for ever and they when I lived in Australia and the skies always had little fluffy clouds and they were long and clear and there were lots of stars, at night.
And when it rain it would all turn beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere.
It's neat because I used to look at them all the time when i was little.
So yeah probably better for radio.
we have collectively decided, as a society
We decided? My best interests? How do you know what my best interest is? How can you say what my best interest is?