Just because bribing someone to register to vote works doesn't necessarily mean they'll actually go out and vote when the time comes. If one is so uninformed about the decisions to not have already registered to vote (ergo: leaving the power of decision-making to those that actually give a shit), then it's unlikely they'll remember when voting day is, let alone who to vote for.
Feh. If you don't inherently give a shit about the outcome, you shouldn't be voting in the first place. Leave the decision-making to those that actually care.
On the contrary. You can put up pretty much whatever message you want on city property provided you actually pay the city for such rights, much as corporations do. Or you can put up pretty much whatever message you want on your own property provided you actually own that property, or get permission from the landowner to do that. But putting a message on either someone else's property or on the city's property isn't "freedom of speech", it's "vandalism". Plain and simple.
You might be onto something. Why not have six months of compulsory military service upon turning 18 much like some European nations do? It'd certainly give our young (and stupid) a better perspective of what the military does and the shit one has to put up with to serve.
Oh come now. You want world domination? Go Mayan. Ag+Ind are an unbeatable pair coupled with a 2.2.1 UU with enslavement to turn those pesky barbarians into free workers for the rest of the game.
StarFleet is a navy, not a reform school. In a navy, "because I said so" is a perfectly valid justification for giving an order. A superior officer doesn't have to offer an explanation if he or she doesn't want to. A superior can be a hardass, and that doesn't excuse a response in kind.
Insightful? Is this what happens when people who know jack squat about military rank structure get mod points?
That's because Picard's Enterprise was more like reform school rather than a proper navy. Remember the episode "Chain of Command" where Captain Edward Jellico temporarily took over? Riker and his cohorts practically stonewalled Jellico from the beginning.
This all stems from Picard's ridiculous assertion that "StarFleet is not a military organization".
The easiest method of determining whether or not a conspiracy theories site holds any shred of credibility whatsoever (as opposed to being a bunch of mindless paranoid ramblings) is whether or not they mention the CIA. If they do, you can toss that opinion out the window, because it's no longer worth reading. The single most overused parent conspiracy is that of "the CIA is behind it."
However, if you're of the mindset that "anything is possible", try slamming a revolving door.
Unless you have ADD/ADHD, in which case coffee is akin to raising the vcore -- the system is overclocked by default, but not all the cylinders are firing.
In such instances, a cup of coffee before bedtime is a good idea if you're actually interested in going to sleep.;)
Why don't the personnel committes just toss out the ones that aren't readable by children?
If your supervisors are tossing them into your personnel file despite their questionable content, maybe it's an indicator of how popular you are amongst your supervisors as opposed to the students.
Course, if you're already on tenure, you don't have a lot to worry about.
Bipolar: Relating to a major affective disorder that is characterized by episodes of mania and depression.
Paranoid: Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others.
Schizophrenic: Of, relating to, or characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements.
Now considering I'm not a psychologist, I don't know about #1 and #3, but as the comments were deleted and he still threatened to sue, the "paranoid" label sounds appropriate.
A certain class of jobs will be destroyed, but many more jobs will be created.
This would be all fine and dandy if said "many more jobs" paid better. I fail to see what jobs are being "created" as a result of the loss of the IT profession in this country. I fail to see what good programming experience will do when there are no more programming jobs in the 'States. See, unlike farm work, which was primarily manual labor, and factory labor, which is primarily manual labor, what good will programming experience do us when all the programming jobs are lost? Hmm? Can you possibly come up with something as exercising on the mind, as beneficial, and pays equal to or better than what was previously attained with a programming job in this country before this outsourcing craze took the jobs away?
Don't you think it is odd that people are calling the outsourcing of jobs to India a "free market failure."
Semantics.
It's a failure of conscience as a result of free market economics. Big companies are outsourcing to third-world nations to save money on employment costs, at the expense of their former workforces whose only crime is expecting the same standard of living they've had for decades. Big government (neo-Republican or otherwise) isn't doing a damned thing to help the people they supposedly serve (the citizens, not themselves). Big unions only serve to make their constituents look like spoiled brats every time they demand a pay increase out of the middle of nowhere.
If I take the "world view", America deserves this. That's why I say screw the world view, screw India, let them pound sand for a living and keep the jobs in the 'States where they'll do the most good.
It's a nice large vague number, it won't mean a damned thing except either the possibility of migrant workers taking up the slack or people with bachelors' and higher in computer science earning minimum wage at Mickey D's.
Nope. Given the current system, a foreign country succeeding will just put a foreign country on top for a few decades before it too falls flat on its face. Such is capitalism. What goes up must come down.
It's as if the gaming industry thinks that to remain relevant they have to release a new console every three years.
Considering Sony and MS gauge their success based on revenue generated from hype, they have to release a new console every three years just to keep the attention of the public. It's not that the systems are incapable of handling the games, it's that the consumers are becoming incapable of sticking with something for long. Sony and Microsoft pushed the limits of their respective hardwares early on in order to one-up eachother as well as Nintendo and in the process, burned out after a couple of years. Considering Nintendo managed to make the SNES last for what? Nine years? Why fix what works?
"Firefox" was the name of a movie in the early 80's (I think) involving the first public use of the term "stealth aircraft" (which IIRC freaked out the US Air Force because at the time they were secretly developing the F-117A).
On a sidenote, it feels nice to have a web browser named after me.;)
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Forest fires don't produce seismic events.
Just because bribing someone to register to vote works doesn't necessarily mean they'll actually go out and vote when the time comes. If one is so uninformed about the decisions to not have already registered to vote (ergo: leaving the power of decision-making to those that actually give a shit), then it's unlikely they'll remember when voting day is, let alone who to vote for.
Feh. If you don't inherently give a shit about the outcome, you shouldn't be voting in the first place. Leave the decision-making to those that actually care.
On the contrary. You can put up pretty much whatever message you want on city property provided you actually pay the city for such rights, much as corporations do. Or you can put up pretty much whatever message you want on your own property provided you actually own that property, or get permission from the landowner to do that. But putting a message on either someone else's property or on the city's property isn't "freedom of speech", it's "vandalism". Plain and simple.
You might be onto something. Why not have six months of compulsory military service upon turning 18 much like some European nations do? It'd certainly give our young (and stupid) a better perspective of what the military does and the shit one has to put up with to serve.
Oh come now. You want world domination? Go Mayan. Ag+Ind are an unbeatable pair coupled with a 2.2.1 UU with enslavement to turn those pesky barbarians into free workers for the rest of the game.
Insightful? Is this what happens when people who know jack squat about military rank structure get mod points?
That's because Picard's Enterprise was more like reform school rather than a proper navy. Remember the episode "Chain of Command" where Captain Edward Jellico temporarily took over? Riker and his cohorts practically stonewalled Jellico from the beginning.
This all stems from Picard's ridiculous assertion that "StarFleet is not a military organization".
Forgotten about SCO already?
Possibilities?
The easiest method of determining whether or not a conspiracy theories site holds any shred of credibility whatsoever (as opposed to being a bunch of mindless paranoid ramblings) is whether or not they mention the CIA. If they do, you can toss that opinion out the window, because it's no longer worth reading. The single most overused parent conspiracy is that of "the CIA is behind it."
However, if you're of the mindset that "anything is possible", try slamming a revolving door.
Unless you have ADD/ADHD, in which case coffee is akin to raising the vcore -- the system is overclocked by default, but not all the cylinders are firing.
;)
In such instances, a cup of coffee before bedtime is a good idea if you're actually interested in going to sleep.
Probably an implication that Nintendo is going to start designing games with women as the target demographic.
...or throws his mouse on the ground and swears at the top of his lungs everytime he loses...
Why don't the personnel committes just toss out the ones that aren't readable by children?
If your supervisors are tossing them into your personnel file despite their questionable content, maybe it's an indicator of how popular you are amongst your supervisors as opposed to the students.
Course, if you're already on tenure, you don't have a lot to worry about.
Bipolar: Relating to a major affective disorder that is characterized by episodes of mania and depression.
Paranoid: Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others.
Schizophrenic: Of, relating to, or characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements.
Now considering I'm not a psychologist, I don't know about #1 and #3, but as the comments were deleted and he still threatened to sue, the "paranoid" label sounds appropriate.
Transfer 'em to billing. That'll fix the problem. ;)
This would be all fine and dandy if said "many more jobs" paid better. I fail to see what jobs are being "created" as a result of the loss of the IT profession in this country. I fail to see what good programming experience will do when there are no more programming jobs in the 'States. See, unlike farm work, which was primarily manual labor, and factory labor, which is primarily manual labor, what good will programming experience do us when all the programming jobs are lost? Hmm? Can you possibly come up with something as exercising on the mind, as beneficial, and pays equal to or better than what was previously attained with a programming job in this country before this outsourcing craze took the jobs away?
I didn't think so.
Semantics.
It's a failure of conscience as a result of free market economics. Big companies are outsourcing to third-world nations to save money on employment costs, at the expense of their former workforces whose only crime is expecting the same standard of living they've had for decades. Big government (neo-Republican or otherwise) isn't doing a damned thing to help the people they supposedly serve (the citizens, not themselves). Big unions only serve to make their constituents look like spoiled brats every time they demand a pay increase out of the middle of nowhere.
If I take the "world view", America deserves this. That's why I say screw the world view, screw India, let them pound sand for a living and keep the jobs in the 'States where they'll do the most good.
It's a nice large vague number, it won't mean a damned thing except either the possibility of migrant workers taking up the slack or people with bachelors' and higher in computer science earning minimum wage at Mickey D's.
Nope. Given the current system, a foreign country succeeding will just put a foreign country on top for a few decades before it too falls flat on its face. Such is capitalism. What goes up must come down.
I think that's "22 million jobs", not having anything to do with a monetary figure (22 million dollars is next to nothing in today's economy).
MyQuake.c will be primarily used to stress-test machines and then post the results everywhere it can.
Considering Sony and MS gauge their success based on revenue generated from hype, they have to release a new console every three years just to keep the attention of the public. It's not that the systems are incapable of handling the games, it's that the consumers are becoming incapable of sticking with something for long. Sony and Microsoft pushed the limits of their respective hardwares early on in order to one-up eachother as well as Nintendo and in the process, burned out after a couple of years. Considering Nintendo managed to make the SNES last for what? Nine years? Why fix what works?
"Firefox" was the name of a movie in the early 80's (I think) involving the first public use of the term "stealth aircraft" (which IIRC freaked out the US Air Force because at the time they were secretly developing the F-117A).
;)
On a sidenote, it feels nice to have a web browser named after me.