Politicians swear to uphold the constitution, but then rule by the phone and pen. Also, they aren't held to account for how well they uphold the constitution- they're reelected based on votes and they care only about getting those votes- by any unethical, deceitful way necessary.
There's also "Alright, fine, its the words on that paper attached to the monitor plus 12345. What do you mean you don't have that paper? You lost it? Oh man, now I'll never be able to decrypt those drives!"
Nixon? Yea, right. If this was Nixon he would have handed over the tapes and resigned - LIKE HE DID. If Nixon was an Obamite he would have just said 'sorry, those tapes are gone. It happens. Nothing you can do now. Suck it'. We're reaching new lows every day.
Odd, at the company I work at those email's can't just be erased. They're on the servers, the backups off site, and those are backed up out of the country. 7 years by legal requirement, and probably longer because "We've got them in storage, why bother hiring someone to find and delete them?"
It wasn't just her emails and hard drive, but also "6 other employees" who happen to have been corresponding with her. In fact, the only people at the IRS that is having hard drive crashes are the people who's email would provide evidence in this case. They seem to have pretty consistent hard drive issues among those with damning evidence, but no issues outside of those people.
Additionally, when her drive crashed, IT would have restored those emails from backup at that point, so even a loss of the backup isn't justification.
Would you guys stop calling us a democracy!? We were a republic. Here is the difference:
Democracy- You vote on each law
Republic- You for for representatives who vote on laws
Dictatorship - Government by one who dictates (rules with a pen and a phone)
Agree. Commercials on TV call it "Low-T" and tell us to get it fixed by taking glorified steroids. No thanks- I like being able to concentrate without being interrupted with thoughts of sex every couple of seconds.
Electricity can be (and usually is) created by burning coal at a power plant. Therefore electric vehicles are just a scam and "do nothing to improve the global environment or remove the dependence on fossil fuels while adding yet another layer of inefficiency to the energy to transportation process." You can generate the electricity in more eco-friendly ways, but you can also generate hydrogen in more eco-friendly ways, including using solar panels to generate electricity and use electrolysis to produce hydrogen. Arguably you can create diesel fuel in eco-friendly ways as well.
You need to seperate the 2 issues - generation vs storage medium. I can understand your issue with relying on Fossil fuels as a source for your energy and your desire to use alternatives (although I think you need to gain a deeper understanding of the true cost of those alternatives). However, you shouldn't let that pervert your analysis of the various storage mediums.
Don't they know that water vapor is the worlds number 1 green house gas - not CO2?! Don't believe me? Check out Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas)
The problem is that people donated a lot of time, companies donated employees and patents, and the community put a lot of support into the Rift and THAT is what Palmer Lucky sold to Facebook. Zuckerburg could have made his own VR department and caught up technically with the Rift in a reasonable amount of time, but what he bought Occulus for community which now resents having been sold.
For instance, Minecraft for the rift was created to help support this pluckly little startup, not increase it's market cap, and the people who donated their time to that got nothing for the sale.
Virtual Tourism? Booooorriiiiiinngg. If I'm using a VR headset to go on a tour it's going to be a tour of a place that is so fantastic that it doesn't (or can't) exist in real life. Like the Taj Mahal? Why pay someone to go there and try to recreate it in simulation when an artist can make it much larger, add the hanging gardens on the side and a cliff face overlooking the ocean off the back? 2 moons (1 of which has been shattered), some amazing storms just to make it fun.
How would this be different if Mozilla hired a gay person and people said "We're not going to support that browser because the CEO is gay". Should the company force out that CEO?
Remember, this guy didn't make any public statements. He gave a anonymous donation and was 'outed' by vigilantes
Consider if this was the opposite. What if he was anti-Prop 8 and some employees asked him to step down for it. What would your reaction be then? Remember, tolerance is a 2 way street, and these employees are very intolerant of differing opinions and beliefs.
If you saw me hulu hoop you'd understand why I don't. Same for dancing. It's like a blind man trying to paint - it can be done, but the results are not pretty.
Yes, I have considered the word consume and yes we are using it up when we consume it. It's not magical and it doesn't have to do with experience it. I consume food- changing it's value to virtually 0. When I consume a steamed movie it has a value to me, but that value is gone after I stop watching it. I consume the paint on the walls of my home because every day that paint becomes less valuable because it gets nicked, it fades and because it ----- here is the key ----- is perceived as less valuable as it gets older. Consume = Turning higher value into lesser value for your purposes.
What the heck does that mean "It's backed by the full faith and credit of the government"? Can I take my money, go to Washington and demand to exchange these dollars for some of the computers that the NSA uses to spy on us? Or for an acre of government land? For a little piece of a national monument? No! They won't even give you gold for it (they did up to about 100 years ago). That "full faith and credit" is just a chant that people say to try to shut down thought and reasoning. The only way that they back up dollars is by prosecuting people who counterfeit dollars, yet the problem is that the harm done by counterfeiting is the same as "Quantitative Easing" which they freely admit to doing.
The truth is that what backs up the USD is Apple who offers iPads for $xyz American dollars, Oil companies that offer barrels of oil at $abc American dollars, restaurants and grocery stores that offer products for American dollars. Its the private sector - the people of the US that give value to the US dollar. But the only thing the government does it print more of them which decreases it's value.
Then put your money where your mouth is- if it really and truely deflationary then you would make money by buying bitcoins. Yet, my guess is that you don't own any. Is it because you don't want to make money or because you don't really believe your own words.
Hmmm.... I wouldn't be willing to be paid in Mexican Pesos either, but they're a currency. Your test is bad. If/when bitcoins become more stable then I would consider getting paid in bitcoins. They're a bit more stable than I thought - I figured this MtGox thing would have reduced them to near worthless, but they only lost 50% of their value. Imagine if it were discovered that the Fed was hacked and 100 Trillion USD were dumped on the market. That would have caused huge issues in the value of dollars.
Inflation is theft of value. Deflation is creation of wealth. If you like inflation so much I'd love for you to buy into my new "Coolcoins". They're backed up by gold, but I'll increase the number of coins per gold oz every day. You'll love all that inflation.
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Politicians swear to uphold the constitution, but then rule by the phone and pen. Also, they aren't held to account for how well they uphold the constitution- they're reelected based on votes and they care only about getting those votes- by any unethical, deceitful way necessary.
You get arrested with one of those and some judges will put you in jail until you can find the password- even if it's the rest of your life.
There's also "Alright, fine, its the words on that paper attached to the monitor plus 12345. What do you mean you don't have that paper? You lost it? Oh man, now I'll never be able to decrypt those drives!"
Nixon? Yea, right. If this was Nixon he would have handed over the tapes and resigned - LIKE HE DID. If Nixon was an Obamite he would have just said 'sorry, those tapes are gone. It happens. Nothing you can do now. Suck it'. We're reaching new lows every day.
Odd, at the company I work at those email's can't just be erased. They're on the servers, the backups off site, and those are backed up out of the country. 7 years by legal requirement, and probably longer because "We've got them in storage, why bother hiring someone to find and delete them?"
It wasn't just her emails and hard drive, but also "6 other employees" who happen to have been corresponding with her. In fact, the only people at the IRS that is having hard drive crashes are the people who's email would provide evidence in this case. They seem to have pretty consistent hard drive issues among those with damning evidence, but no issues outside of those people.
Additionally, when her drive crashed, IT would have restored those emails from backup at that point, so even a loss of the backup isn't justification.
Would you guys stop calling us a democracy!? We were a republic. Here is the difference:
Democracy- You vote on each law
Republic- You for for representatives who vote on laws
Dictatorship - Government by one who dictates (rules with a pen and a phone)
No, they Siri'd it. And Siri told them that there was no restaurants in the immediate area with the name swift so they figured they were ok
Agree. Commercials on TV call it "Low-T" and tell us to get it fixed by taking glorified steroids. No thanks- I like being able to concentrate without being interrupted with thoughts of sex every couple of seconds.
Electricity can be (and usually is) created by burning coal at a power plant. Therefore electric vehicles are just a scam and "do nothing to improve the global environment or remove the dependence on fossil fuels while adding yet another layer of inefficiency to the energy to transportation process." You can generate the electricity in more eco-friendly ways, but you can also generate hydrogen in more eco-friendly ways, including using solar panels to generate electricity and use electrolysis to produce hydrogen. Arguably you can create diesel fuel in eco-friendly ways as well.
You need to seperate the 2 issues - generation vs storage medium. I can understand your issue with relying on Fossil fuels as a source for your energy and your desire to use alternatives (although I think you need to gain a deeper understanding of the true cost of those alternatives). However, you shouldn't let that pervert your analysis of the various storage mediums.
Don't they know that water vapor is the worlds number 1 green house gas - not CO2?! Don't believe me? Check out Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas)
The problem is that people donated a lot of time, companies donated employees and patents, and the community put a lot of support into the Rift and THAT is what Palmer Lucky sold to Facebook. Zuckerburg could have made his own VR department and caught up technically with the Rift in a reasonable amount of time, but what he bought Occulus for community which now resents having been sold.
For instance, Minecraft for the rift was created to help support this pluckly little startup, not increase it's market cap, and the people who donated their time to that got nothing for the sale.
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Virtual Tourism? Booooorriiiiiinngg. If I'm using a VR headset to go on a tour it's going to be a tour of a place that is so fantastic that it doesn't (or can't) exist in real life. Like the Taj Mahal? Why pay someone to go there and try to recreate it in simulation when an artist can make it much larger, add the hanging gardens on the side and a cliff face overlooking the ocean off the back? 2 moons (1 of which has been shattered), some amazing storms just to make it fun.
How would this be different if Mozilla hired a gay person and people said "We're not going to support that browser because the CEO is gay". Should the company force out that CEO?
Remember, this guy didn't make any public statements. He gave a anonymous donation and was 'outed' by vigilantes
Consider if this was the opposite. What if he was anti-Prop 8 and some employees asked him to step down for it. What would your reaction be then? Remember, tolerance is a 2 way street, and these employees are very intolerant of differing opinions and beliefs.
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If you saw me hulu hoop you'd understand why I don't. Same for dancing. It's like a blind man trying to paint - it can be done, but the results are not pretty.
What is it with Women who work in Software Dev? They seem to think that men just sit around making generalizations about them...... oh wait
Hmmm... what about all the people that show up in Borat like movies?
Yes, I have considered the word consume and yes we are using it up when we consume it. It's not magical and it doesn't have to do with experience it. I consume food- changing it's value to virtually 0. When I consume a steamed movie it has a value to me, but that value is gone after I stop watching it. I consume the paint on the walls of my home because every day that paint becomes less valuable because it gets nicked, it fades and because it ----- here is the key ----- is perceived as less valuable as it gets older. Consume = Turning higher value into lesser value for your purposes.
What the heck does that mean "It's backed by the full faith and credit of the government"? Can I take my money, go to Washington and demand to exchange these dollars for some of the computers that the NSA uses to spy on us? Or for an acre of government land? For a little piece of a national monument? No! They won't even give you gold for it (they did up to about 100 years ago). That "full faith and credit" is just a chant that people say to try to shut down thought and reasoning. The only way that they back up dollars is by prosecuting people who counterfeit dollars, yet the problem is that the harm done by counterfeiting is the same as "Quantitative Easing" which they freely admit to doing.
The truth is that what backs up the USD is Apple who offers iPads for $xyz American dollars, Oil companies that offer barrels of oil at $abc American dollars, restaurants and grocery stores that offer products for American dollars. Its the private sector - the people of the US that give value to the US dollar. But the only thing the government does it print more of them which decreases it's value.
Then put your money where your mouth is- if it really and truely deflationary then you would make money by buying bitcoins. Yet, my guess is that you don't own any. Is it because you don't want to make money or because you don't really believe your own words.
Hmmm.... I wouldn't be willing to be paid in Mexican Pesos either, but they're a currency. Your test is bad. If/when bitcoins become more stable then I would consider getting paid in bitcoins. They're a bit more stable than I thought - I figured this MtGox thing would have reduced them to near worthless, but they only lost 50% of their value. Imagine if it were discovered that the Fed was hacked and 100 Trillion USD were dumped on the market. That would have caused huge issues in the value of dollars.
Inflation is theft of value. Deflation is creation of wealth. If you like inflation so much I'd love for you to buy into my new "Coolcoins". They're backed up by gold, but I'll increase the number of coins per gold oz every day. You'll love all that inflation.