The guy was found by a civilian who had the balls to go outside. The FBI and the Police didn't do anything except answer the phone and show up when they were told where he was. Let's not pretend, m'kay.
I believe the homeowner went outside because the lockdown had been lifted.
I agree totally with the gist of your post, but I think the reason the authorities asked people to stay inside and at home was to try and deprive this guy - whose dead brother was initially reported to be wearing a suicide bomb vest - of large gatherings of people in which to stand in and blow himself up.
Smithsonian is the best, one I am willing to pay for. National Geographic, though their gee whiz coverage of the world is annoying sometimes. Make, got that as a gift and really enjoyed it for a couple of years. I would pay for NewScientist if I could afford it.
"Steve Forbes is an idiot, and he simply does not understand how money functions in an advanced economy."
His self made net worth of $430 million dollars is evidence that your hypothesis is incorrect.
You are correct in that he probably has an IQ which would not make him a literal idiot. He is a metaphorical idiot, a rich legacy who was born on third base and then stole second to the cheers of his hired hands.
Multiple bombings involved. I once looked at a house which had replaced the one in which one of the jurors lived - it was damaged by an anarchist bomb in 1927 and had to be torn down.
"Make work fun; weed out the naysayers; celebrate failure, and then learn from it; allow employees to take short naps during the day...."
Yeah, that's going to happen. What will happen is that management will read the book and only remember the parts which reinforce what they already want to do. Maybe like pay you a dollar a year so you will be more like Jobs.
It will be like when managment studied Japanese manufacturing methods and came away with loyalty to the company and suchlike to be the key. The lifetime job security and loyalty of the company to the employee aspects of Japanese corporate culture went in one eye and out the other.
I was in Boothbay Harbor some weeks before, and the Bounty was in drydock having some work done. We gawked and took a few photos, as we had listened to the whole of the Aubrey/Maturin series and wanted to see something from about that period. The next thing I know I see her on TV, masts sticking out of the water.
One of the details which amused us was that the replica seemed not to have a "seat of ease" up forward.
No, I'm not. You seem to be under the impression that these ideas had proof prior to the experiments being done. Minds like Randi's are problematic because they sprout from the diea that there's nothing to it, rather than from the possibility that there's something to it.
Am not. I am under the impression only that these ideas came from somewhere, not the void. They were suggested by observation and reinforced by more observation. Moreover, mindsets like Randi's are the only mindsets that are worth having - the kind that says: Show me. AKA Money talks and bullshit walks.
That's my feeling, I admire his aims, but I don't respect the hypocrisy with which he aims to meet them. Ultimately, skepticism without an open mind is lacking in value. One must have an open mind when being skeptical because there's a ton of weird things over the years that have proven to be true, even though they seemed to be completely insane at the time.
The whole idea that cells are made up of even smaller particles would have seemed to be astonishing when it was first postulated, and scientists are still finding smaller particles many decades later.
Or, perhaps those blind spots where the optic nerves prevent vision, I'm sure that seemed very strange when discovered. Or the ability of humans to see polarization in light, even now that seems relatively strange, even though it's true.
You are confusing discoveries which can be proven upon investigation with alleged discoveries for which no proof is ever offered.
I'm pulling my money out of foolish things like municipal bonds and buying stock in companies which make rotator cuff treatments and therapies because that is apparently going to be a huge growth area soon.
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I think we can figure out from the summary alone who took kickback money to buy these things.
"The calls are coming from inside your house!"
"Congress is looking into this issue."
The MIT policeman was apparently shot in the head while sitting in his car, not apprehending the suspects.
treating it as the absolute unchanging principal that defines the United States.
Except for the fact that it is, you are otherwise correct.
It must be true, because I saw it bolded on the Internet.
the best Sci-Fi story ever made!
For some extremely loose definition of science fiction. Star Wars had fiction but no science. It is sword and sorcery in space.
"...Disney announced their plan to release, following the 2015 JJ Abrams Episode VII, a new Star Wars movie every 1 (one, uno, une) year. "
That's funny. I have a plan to not watch a new Star Wars movie every year.
The guy was found by a civilian who had the balls to go outside. The FBI and the Police didn't do anything except answer the phone and show up when they were told where he was. Let's not pretend, m'kay.
I believe the homeowner went outside because the lockdown had been lifted.
I agree totally with the gist of your post, but I think the reason the authorities asked people to stay inside and at home was to try and deprive this guy - whose dead brother was initially reported to be wearing a suicide bomb vest - of large gatherings of people in which to stand in and blow himself up.
And the untouched baserunner would have flopped to the ground clutching his shin and grimacing.
Smithsonian is the best, one I am willing to pay for. National Geographic, though their gee whiz coverage of the world is annoying sometimes. Make, got that as a gift and really enjoyed it for a couple of years. I would pay for NewScientist if I could afford it.
"Steve Forbes is an idiot, and he simply does not understand how money functions in an advanced economy."
His self made net worth of $430 million dollars is evidence that your hypothesis is incorrect.
You are correct in that he probably has an IQ which would not make him a literal idiot. He is a metaphorical idiot, a rich legacy who was born on third base and then stole second to the cheers of his hired hands.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2012/11/06/steve-forbes-romney-will-win-decisively/
"Self made"??? He inherited a publishing empire. Nice bootstraps to have around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti
Multiple bombings involved. I once looked at a house which had replaced the one in which one of the jurors lived - it was damaged by an anarchist bomb in 1927 and had to be torn down.
Didn't the phrase "thumbprint-sized touch screen" set off any warning bells in the designers' heads?
I hope you all caught the latest hagiographic articles going around the more gullible news sites - some reporter used the Wayback to look at Zs website circa 1999 and discovered that it included links to people, therefore this was the precursor to Facebook.
http://www.techspot.com/news/52148-zuckerbergs-first-website-contained-an-early-facebook-prototype.html
Think about what you just implied: that banks are so insecure, that they need insurance to deal with their likelihood of failure.
And I heard that you are such a bad driver that the state makes you carry insurance just so you can drive your car.
"A scary reminder of how insecure ALL money is in the computer age...."
I applaud the creation of Bitcoin, but really, would you trust your $10,000 more on a server somewhere or in an FDIC-covered bank?
Maybe if you had taken some of those "fluff and filler" classes that maybe you could form cogent sentences?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
"Make work fun; weed out the naysayers; celebrate failure, and then learn from it; allow employees to take short naps during the day...."
Yeah, that's going to happen. What will happen is that management will read the book and only remember the parts which reinforce what they already want to do. Maybe like pay you a dollar a year so you will be more like Jobs.
It will be like when managment studied Japanese manufacturing methods and came away with loyalty to the company and suchlike to be the key. The lifetime job security and loyalty of the company to the employee aspects of Japanese corporate culture went in one eye and out the other.
I was in Boothbay Harbor some weeks before, and the Bounty was in drydock having some work done. We gawked and took a few photos, as we had listened to the whole of the Aubrey/Maturin series and wanted to see something from about that period. The next thing I know I see her on TV, masts sticking out of the water.
One of the details which amused us was that the replica seemed not to have a "seat of ease" up forward.
No, I'm not. You seem to be under the impression that these ideas had proof prior to the experiments being done. Minds like Randi's are problematic because they sprout from the diea that there's nothing to it, rather than from the possibility that there's something to it.
Am not. I am under the impression only that these ideas came from somewhere, not the void. They were suggested by observation and reinforced by more observation. Moreover, mindsets like Randi's are the only mindsets that are worth having - the kind that says: Show me. AKA Money talks and bullshit walks.
That's my feeling, I admire his aims, but I don't respect the hypocrisy with which he aims to meet them. Ultimately, skepticism without an open mind is lacking in value. One must have an open mind when being skeptical because there's a ton of weird things over the years that have proven to be true, even though they seemed to be completely insane at the time.
The whole idea that cells are made up of even smaller particles would have seemed to be astonishing when it was first postulated, and scientists are still finding smaller particles many decades later.
Or, perhaps those blind spots where the optic nerves prevent vision, I'm sure that seemed very strange when discovered. Or the ability of humans to see polarization in light, even now that seems relatively strange, even though it's true.
You are confusing discoveries which can be proven upon investigation with alleged discoveries for which no proof is ever offered.
I'm pulling my money out of foolish things like municipal bonds and buying stock in companies which make rotator cuff treatments and therapies because that is apparently going to be a huge growth area soon.
You mean that Kickstarter is so popular nobody goes there anymore?
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