So, why does someone think we needed to be reminded of this?
It's not like even the news is particularly bad recently - no major wars, famines, etc. Even the Ebola outbreak only managed to do in 7000 people this year - once upon a time, we could expect a famine in Africa that did worse every few years.
Are we really reaching the point where we consider a few police shootings to be a sign of the end times?
Which ICBM capabilities are those? Earlier this year, they claimed to be nearly ready to TEST an ICBM.
Even assuming that the test went perfectly, and they could turn the ICBM factory to full production the next day, they'd be a looooong way from having "ICBM capabilities".
Especially since there's no indication they can actually build a nuclear weapon that would fit on one. So far, they've done a couple of test nukes, none of which would've matched Little Boy. And Little Boy and Fat Man were better than a decade of intensive R&D and continuous testing away from "ICBM capable"....
Alas, we weren't tied up in silly alliances with people we detested like most of the European nations in both WW1 and WW2.
It should be noted, though, that the USA provided material and military assistance to the UK & USSR well before Japan attacked us, and in violation of US laws at the time (FDR was many things, including a tyrant who ignored the laws and Constitution when it suited him).
Google Reuben James sometime. Trust me, US Navy ships escorting convoys of war material to a belligerent isn't business as usual. Or wasn't then.
Note also that just because you're at war doesn't actually obligate other people to help you.
Note finally that we remained untouched by the war not because we entered late, but because we had thousands of miles of ocean between us and Japan/Germany - they couldn't REACH us to do much damage, even if they'd wanted to.
As someone who is a bit of a grammar/spelling nazi, I'd have to give this one a pass if it's a standalone problem - I don't have problems with typos, and "all-to-" could have just been a miskey....
I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, when that ~$2T in "Excess reserves" comes back into the money supply and turbo-charges inflation, but hopefully that will just be Carter-like, and not a currency collapse.
That $2T "excess reserves" represents between five and ten percent of the money supply. If the Fed can overcome the urge to do QE again until that first $2T works its way through the economy, then it'll represent a couple extra percent inflation for three or four years, and not be much of a problem.
If they decide to be so impressed with how QE worked that they do it whenever the economy stutters, it'll be disastrous....
How do you deal with this: two year old needs to get into the carseat, but doesn't want to? Screams, hits, cries. Sometimes talking can work, other times she runs away if you try to talk to her.
The first thing you do is ask yourself "where do I usually take the kid in the car?". Because the kid obviously doesn't like that place.
Then you figure out why the kid doesn't like that place, and deal with THAT issue. Once you've worked that, you can go back to carseat issues.
they could reasonably be expected to have enough firepower to damage Japan.
Slightly. At most. North Korea's ability to project power barely extends beyond the DMZ. They could ruin Seoul, maybe...
Note that there's no indication that whatever the NK's have for a "nuclear arsenel" is air-portable, nor is there much indication that they could get a plane to Japan....
is not whether or not animals are persons, but whether or not we can give ourselves every rights to subdue, restrain, decide of the life or death, and/or mutilation (commonly known as "fixing") of other living being.
Of course we can!
Possibility the First: God exists, and gave Man dominion over the Earth and everything in it. Check, we can do what we like.
Possibility the Second: God doesn't exist, we're just another animal. Therefore we can do what we like to the lesser animals, because, after all, we're just another Top-of-the-Food-Chain predator, eh?
I thought that we were in favour of legalizing (or decriminalizing, at least) the so-called "illegal drugs".
Which would make drug smugglers just a bunch of tax evaders. So what's the problem with that? Are we really all that upset about other countries' tax revenues, or lack of same?
Or are we supposed to be upset about lost sales taxes on drug sales in the USA? I can, sorta, see that as being a problem, but not enough to get excited about, really....
So I would expect the phrase "US government" to include the government of Washington State, along with all other governments within the US. Do you really use it only to describe the federal government?
Yes. Pretty much, "US government" refers to the Feds.
What do you say instead when you mean the federal government *and* the government of the States and other territories collectively?
We hardly ever talk about that. At levels lower than the Feds, we talk about "State and local governments" from time to time.
But the States are only subordinate to the Feds on Constitutional matters (there are things only allowed to the Feds, and things only forbidden to the Feds), so much of State law is completely orthogonal to Federal law. This is generally not true at State level (cities and towns can pass their own laws with the permission of the State, but only with permission).
But at the State level, that's just not true (an example: Murder is a State-level crime. It's only a Federal crime if it takes place in an area not under jurisdiction of State law (military reservation, for example, which is not subject to State law, even if it sits entirely within a single State)).
So we very seldom clump all law-making bodies from the Feds on down together.
If there was some wrong I'd want righted, and I thought that the arm of government responsible for looking into the matter was low on resources, I'd want to be able to "help out".
So would I.
Especially if I were going to be paid millions and millions of dollars for "helping out".
Because last I looked, most of the developed world continues to struggle with unemployment.
Hmm, the USA considers "full employment" to be roughly equal to 6% unemployment (which we're pretty close to now).
Note that the "workforce" they're talking about is essentially everyone between the ages of 18 and 65.
Now, once upon a time, (immediately post-WW2, for example), the "workforce" did NOT include most of the women of the country. Which means that percentage employment has nearly doubled, using the 1950 definition of employment.
If we applied the modern definition of unemployment to that period, we'd say that during WW2 we were running probably 35-40% unemployment.
In other words, change the definitions, get different results.....
When was the last time anybody got a "felony rap" for a state law?
Umm, you are aware that MURDER is a State crime, not a Federal one, right?
As is kidnapping, assault, robbery, well, pretty much everything not related to taxes or committed on a Federal Reservation (military base, that sort of thing)....
They won't. States are allowed to pass whatever laws they like, as long as the laws don't interfere with Interstate Commerce or other applicable parts of the Constitution.
A law saying it was legal to raise and sell pot, but NOT in Interstate Commerce, would be clearly unconstitutional (the Feds can decide that, the States, not so much).
Similarly, the State next door whinging about your local laws would be unconstitutional (note Nevada's gambling laws going way back)....
Don't know about you, but I don't spend much of remaining lifespan even thinking about movies that are being made (or not).
I first heard about this movie (I'm assuming here we're talking about "The Interview", since that's the only movie I've heard about in regard to the Sony hack) in a news article about the hack. And I wondered what the big deal was - it's just a movie....
Of course, the question then becomes: "what did Obama have to do with any of those things?"
He got us out of Iraq on Bush's timetable, ditto Afghanistan. Never mind that we never got completely out of either country, and are now fighting in both again.
bin Laden, he got. Not that I've ever cared about him. He wasn't even as good a symbol as Hitler or Tojo, and "getting" either of them wouldn't have made a difference either.
The economic stuff? He had no more influence on that then Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, etc had on that sort of thing....
Give a President credit where it is due. But don't credit him with everything that happens on his watch. Most of what happens he's neither to blame for, nor due any credit for.
Ditto Congress.
Alas, all too many people assign blame and credit to the government based on nothing more than "it happened while XXX was in office"....
What would happen if the tension provided by the balloon's lift was removed, for whatever reason?
The balloon would crash. The tether would come down with the balloon, doing rather less damage than the balloon does.
If you're unlucky, you might have some of the tether draped over your house.
What I'm curious about is why anyone cares - the Army is always testing some new way to get away from needing the Air Force. That's all this is. Once they determine that it'll perform its design function reasonably well, they'll give the Air Force a razzberry, and move on to the next project....
And if they'd gotten their way, the "norm" for industrialized societies today would be 12 hour workdays, six days a week, and a standard of living comparable to the better sort of Third World country....
>The question is would you still drive if you have a faster and less stressful, even maybe a more productive way of getting to point B?
Plenty do.
Where? If you're talking places with public transit, I can't think of one outside possibly NYC that is both faster and less stressful than driving yourself.
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So, why does someone think we needed to be reminded of this?
It's not like even the news is particularly bad recently - no major wars, famines, etc. Even the Ebola outbreak only managed to do in 7000 people this year - once upon a time, we could expect a famine in Africa that did worse every few years.
Are we really reaching the point where we consider a few police shootings to be a sign of the end times?
And that isn't the point?? Bring in snakes and beer, and get empty seats all around as a bennie. Win-win....
Which ICBM capabilities are those? Earlier this year, they claimed to be nearly ready to TEST an ICBM.
Even assuming that the test went perfectly, and they could turn the ICBM factory to full production the next day, they'd be a looooong way from having "ICBM capabilities".
Especially since there's no indication they can actually build a nuclear weapon that would fit on one. So far, they've done a couple of test nukes, none of which would've matched Little Boy. And Little Boy and Fat Man were better than a decade of intensive R&D and continuous testing away from "ICBM capable"....
Alas, we weren't tied up in silly alliances with people we detested like most of the European nations in both WW1 and WW2.
It should be noted, though, that the USA provided material and military assistance to the UK & USSR well before Japan attacked us, and in violation of US laws at the time (FDR was many things, including a tyrant who ignored the laws and Constitution when it suited him).
Google Reuben James sometime. Trust me, US Navy ships escorting convoys of war material to a belligerent isn't business as usual. Or wasn't then.
Note also that just because you're at war doesn't actually obligate other people to help you.
Note finally that we remained untouched by the war not because we entered late, but because we had thousands of miles of ocean between us and Japan/Germany - they couldn't REACH us to do much damage, even if they'd wanted to.
As someone who is a bit of a grammar/spelling nazi, I'd have to give this one a pass if it's a standalone problem - I don't have problems with typos, and "all-to-" could have just been a miskey....
Not at all the same as there/they're/their....
That $2T "excess reserves" represents between five and ten percent of the money supply. If the Fed can overcome the urge to do QE again until that first $2T works its way through the economy, then it'll represent a couple extra percent inflation for three or four years, and not be much of a problem.
If they decide to be so impressed with how QE worked that they do it whenever the economy stutters, it'll be disastrous....
Didn't I see just this morning something about some Brit (well, Scot, presumably, since it was in Glasgow) who was arrested for an "offensive tweet"?
Sounds like par for the course for the UK....
The first thing you do is ask yourself "where do I usually take the kid in the car?". Because the kid obviously doesn't like that place.
Then you figure out why the kid doesn't like that place, and deal with THAT issue. Once you've worked that, you can go back to carseat issues.
Slightly. At most. North Korea's ability to project power barely extends beyond the DMZ. They could ruin Seoul, maybe...
Note that there's no indication that whatever the NK's have for a "nuclear arsenel" is air-portable, nor is there much indication that they could get a plane to Japan....
Of course we can!
Possibility the First: God exists, and gave Man dominion over the Earth and everything in it. Check, we can do what we like.
Possibility the Second: God doesn't exist, we're just another animal. Therefore we can do what we like to the lesser animals, because, after all, we're just another Top-of-the-Food-Chain predator, eh?
Wait, what?
I thought that we were in favour of legalizing (or decriminalizing, at least) the so-called "illegal drugs".
Which would make drug smugglers just a bunch of tax evaders. So what's the problem with that? Are we really all that upset about other countries' tax revenues, or lack of same?
Or are we supposed to be upset about lost sales taxes on drug sales in the USA? I can, sorta, see that as being a problem, but not enough to get excited about, really....
Because manual entry is likely to see things like "their" spelled "there". Which kinda-sorta looks right, but isn't.
Yes. Pretty much, "US government" refers to the Feds.
We hardly ever talk about that. At levels lower than the Feds, we talk about "State and local governments" from time to time.
But the States are only subordinate to the Feds on Constitutional matters (there are things only allowed to the Feds, and things only forbidden to the Feds), so much of State law is completely orthogonal to Federal law. This is generally not true at State level (cities and towns can pass their own laws with the permission of the State, but only with permission).
But at the State level, that's just not true (an example: Murder is a State-level crime. It's only a Federal crime if it takes place in an area not under jurisdiction of State law (military reservation, for example, which is not subject to State law, even if it sits entirely within a single State)).
So we very seldom clump all law-making bodies from the Feds on down together.
So would I.
Especially if I were going to be paid millions and millions of dollars for "helping out".
Hmm, the USA considers "full employment" to be roughly equal to 6% unemployment (which we're pretty close to now).
Note that the "workforce" they're talking about is essentially everyone between the ages of 18 and 65.
Now, once upon a time, (immediately post-WW2, for example), the "workforce" did NOT include most of the women of the country. Which means that percentage employment has nearly doubled, using the 1950 definition of employment.
If we applied the modern definition of unemployment to that period, we'd say that during WW2 we were running probably 35-40% unemployment.
In other words, change the definitions, get different results.....
Personally, my favorite was the Encyclopedia Salesman story....
Umm, you are aware that MURDER is a State crime, not a Federal one, right?
As is kidnapping, assault, robbery, well, pretty much everything not related to taxes or committed on a Federal Reservation (military base, that sort of thing)....
They won't. States are allowed to pass whatever laws they like, as long as the laws don't interfere with Interstate Commerce or other applicable parts of the Constitution.
A law saying it was legal to raise and sell pot, but NOT in Interstate Commerce, would be clearly unconstitutional (the Feds can decide that, the States, not so much).
Similarly, the State next door whinging about your local laws would be unconstitutional (note Nevada's gambling laws going way back)....
So do I. Because I didn't think of it first....
Yeppers. WIsh I could get in on it....
Don't know about you, but I don't spend much of remaining lifespan even thinking about movies that are being made (or not).
I first heard about this movie (I'm assuming here we're talking about "The Interview", since that's the only movie I've heard about in regard to the Sony hack) in a news article about the hack. And I wondered what the big deal was - it's just a movie....
What, you've never been SURE you were right, and then later found out you were wrong?
Nothing wrong with being wrong with confidence. Sounds like the majority of humanity the majority of the time.
Now, does this mean that the AI is useful? Well, it's useful for finding out why it's 100% certain, but wrong. In the field, not so much.
Of course, the question then becomes: "what did Obama have to do with any of those things?"
He got us out of Iraq on Bush's timetable, ditto Afghanistan. Never mind that we never got completely out of either country, and are now fighting in both again.
bin Laden, he got. Not that I've ever cared about him. He wasn't even as good a symbol as Hitler or Tojo, and "getting" either of them wouldn't have made a difference either.
The economic stuff? He had no more influence on that then Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, etc had on that sort of thing....
Give a President credit where it is due. But don't credit him with everything that happens on his watch. Most of what happens he's neither to blame for, nor due any credit for.
Ditto Congress.
Alas, all too many people assign blame and credit to the government based on nothing more than "it happened while XXX was in office"....
The balloon would crash. The tether would come down with the balloon, doing rather less damage than the balloon does.
If you're unlucky, you might have some of the tether draped over your house.
What I'm curious about is why anyone cares - the Army is always testing some new way to get away from needing the Air Force. That's all this is. Once they determine that it'll perform its design function reasonably well, they'll give the Air Force a razzberry, and move on to the next project....
And if they'd gotten their way, the "norm" for industrialized societies today would be 12 hour workdays, six days a week, and a standard of living comparable to the better sort of Third World country....
Where? If you're talking places with public transit, I can't think of one outside possibly NYC that is both faster and less stressful than driving yourself.