It's not very clear from TFA, but if "virus" is supposed to refer to plague, the hopeful jihadist seems lacking in even basic microbiological knowledge.
Since the hopeful jihadist probably wasn't writing in English, it's just possible that "virus" was a translation error.
Yes, it's now the sixth or seventh largest in history...
Note that the only reason the deficit is "shrinking" is that it ballooned enormously (to over twice the previous record) a few years back. It has yet to get back down to the level that was considered "normal" (which most of us considered "too damn high")....
half of these is probably about whether or not he slept with that woman... he he...
- Not that I ever cared one bit....
The only thing even remotely interesting about whether he slept with that woman was that, since she was an employee of his, it was a textbook example of workplace sexual harassment.
Because, the yellow cake thing was a lie, there were no WMDs, they weren't sponsoring terrorism, and had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11.
*sighs*
No opinion on the yellowcake or the sponsoring of terrorism, but there WERE WMD's.
Note that chemical weapons are WMD's (yeah, Assad has used WMD's on his own people, as did Saddam). Note that Saddam had used chemical weapons against the Kurds....
Comparatively, the world has had a large decrease in military force, where world wars were a 20-year occurrence. But those mostly ended after WWII. And yes, lots of wars in the 1800s that weren't world wars were still world wars because Spain, England, and France were battling behind the scenes in lots of "local" skirmishes.
Two things:
1) one of the reasons world wars went out of style was the US's overwhelming military dominance. World Wars were fashionable when the "great powers" (note the plural) had comparable military strengths.
2) Before the 20th century, "world wars" were mostly impractical because it took so damn long to get anywhere. Months to cross the Atlantic, more months to cross the Pacific, much less to do the fighting when you got across, that sort of thing....
What if we had a 1 penny tax on transactions, any transaction. For example there are 300 million bank transactions in the country a day. thats 30 million in taxes per day, JUST on bank transactions.
Alas for your theory, we don't have ten cents to the dollar in the USA. 300 million bank transactions is only $3 million.
Note, by the by, that $3M is about enough money for 25 seconds of Federal spending....
Say what you will about those old paper-and-board book things, at least you knew exactly where you were, and could get some mental image of the progression of the narrative arc.
Seems to me I get the same effect by glancing down to the bottom of my Nook's display and noting the "page ## of ####".
Seriously, if that's your only problem with a Reader....
I lived in Atlanta many years ago. Problem with "walkability" wasn't the distances from groceries/restaurants/etc, it was temperature during the summer months. Walking four blocks with groceries at 85+F (30C) would not be fun after a few weeks....
A phrase you might be searching for (or not) is "national technical means".
It's the enforcement mechanism in a great many treaties involving things like, oh, nuclear weapons development, for instance.
In case it's not obvious, "national technical means" is more or less synonymous with "spying". Yes, we can't actually count on people we make treaties with abiding by the treaties absent some enforcement mechanism. So we spy on them to make sure they do.
And yes, this may involve spying on perfectly innocent civilians in the process. It's not like the other fellow's secret projects are going to be marked secret_nuclear_project.gov after all....
Because using a small, cheap, high-velocity, can-move-in-3D, expendable drone is more expensive than using more agents?
Federal agencies don't get a budget that consists of "here's a pile of money, have fun spending it".
They get a budget with line items for specific things. Like agent payroll. Or drone aircraft.
Congress drawing a line through the "drone aircraft" line item is a budget cut....
Though it's more likely that they asked for $XXX extra to pay for some drones plus staff to operate same, were told "No, we can't give you that much extra", and described it as a "budget cut" (or do you not remember the period of "budget cutting" a couple decades back which consisted of not giving various agencies as much MORE money this year as they had expected to get, but still giving them more than last year (and more than inflation)? Those were "budget cuts" as defined in Washington....
The problem are square feet versus square meters or acres versus hectar (german measure, 100 ars, where an ar is 100 square meters [10x10]... or square miles versus square kilometers... )
About ten square feet per square meter is a pretty good approximation.
A foot is 296.904mm but that wouldn't apply here since we are talking about Greek imperial units so we should probably use the Greek foot (pous) of 308.2 mm.
Last I checked, a foot was 304.8mm (25.4mm per inch, 12 inches per foot).
BLOCKQUOTE>but I think we need to argue what he said and not how he said it.
We should argue about both.
How he said it affects whether people even finish reading what he said.
I think he was trying to make complex points.
You can make complex points using paragraphs, rather than just stringing ideas together with commas till your readers can no longer follow your points.
In my case, I hit that sentence I quoted, and by the time I figured out what he was saying, I was no longer interested in continuing to read his comment.
So, even if his ideas were enough to revolutionize several sciences, they're not presented clearly enough that people will work their way through even the three paragraph summary.
Second, I am not adding to a fund that Congress can "borrow from" whenever they want.
Actually, they've always borrowed against it. The "Social Security Trust Fund" consists of a bunch of intra-governmental (zero interest) T-Bills (essentially IOU's) because any income surplus to actual needs is automatically lent to the General Fund.
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Since the hopeful jihadist probably wasn't writing in English, it's just possible that "virus" was a translation error.
Does the phrase "Trail of Tears" mean anything to you?
How about "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"?
Note that the quotation is likely apocryphal, but it pretty much conveys Jackson's attitude toward the Supremes in regards to the Trail of Tears....
Yes, it's now the sixth or seventh largest in history...
Note that the only reason the deficit is "shrinking" is that it ballooned enormously (to over twice the previous record) a few years back. It has yet to get back down to the level that was considered "normal" (which most of us considered "too damn high")....
The only thing even remotely interesting about whether he slept with that woman was that, since she was an employee of his, it was a textbook example of workplace sexual harassment.
Even if she was willing....
No, but they might be interested in a few more customers for GLONASS....
*sighs*
No opinion on the yellowcake or the sponsoring of terrorism, but there WERE WMD's.
Note that chemical weapons are WMD's (yeah, Assad has used WMD's on his own people, as did Saddam). Note that Saddam had used chemical weapons against the Kurds....
Umm, no.
In 2013, the USA used 134.5 billion gallons of gasoline. Which works out to about $450-500 billion.
Two things:
1) one of the reasons world wars went out of style was the US's overwhelming military dominance. World Wars were fashionable when the "great powers" (note the plural) had comparable military strengths.
2) Before the 20th century, "world wars" were mostly impractical because it took so damn long to get anywhere. Months to cross the Atlantic, more months to cross the Pacific, much less to do the fighting when you got across, that sort of thing....
Because the pay is terrible, and you can't support a family as a primary school teacher?
Alas for your theory, we don't have ten cents to the dollar in the USA. 300 million bank transactions is only $3 million.
Note, by the by, that $3M is about enough money for 25 seconds of Federal spending....
Or maybe they're up to date enough to realize that the Blue Jay I'm looking at out in my backyard is a dinosaur.
As is the neighbor's parakeet....
Per capita violent crime in MS ranks considerably below the national average (299 per 100K as opposed to 474 nationally (2006 figures)).
Massachusetts, New York, and California all have violent crime rates rather higher than the national average....
As does the District of Columbia (over three times the national average, nearly twice that of the highest State).
Since we define elements by the number of protons, that would be basically impossible.
Seems to me I get the same effect by glancing down to the bottom of my Nook's display and noting the "page ## of ####".
Seriously, if that's your only problem with a Reader....
Was what followed really misogynistic?
If so, I need to go in for recalibration re cultural norms, since I saw nothing even faintly misogynistic...
Everything I've read said it's very unlikely to hit Earth in 2880. One chance in three hundred does not "likely" make.
On the other hand, 1 in 300 is pretty close to the chance of a Straight coming up without a Draw....
I lived in Atlanta many years ago. Problem with "walkability" wasn't the distances from groceries/restaurants/etc, it was temperature during the summer months. Walking four blocks with groceries at 85+F (30C) would not be fun after a few weeks....
It's the enforcement mechanism in a great many treaties involving things like, oh, nuclear weapons development, for instance.
In case it's not obvious, "national technical means" is more or less synonymous with "spying". Yes, we can't actually count on people we make treaties with abiding by the treaties absent some enforcement mechanism. So we spy on them to make sure they do.
And yes, this may involve spying on perfectly innocent civilians in the process. It's not like the other fellow's secret projects are going to be marked secret_nuclear_project.gov after all....
Federal agencies don't get a budget that consists of "here's a pile of money, have fun spending it".
They get a budget with line items for specific things. Like agent payroll. Or drone aircraft.
Congress drawing a line through the "drone aircraft" line item is a budget cut....
Though it's more likely that they asked for $XXX extra to pay for some drones plus staff to operate same, were told "No, we can't give you that much extra", and described it as a "budget cut" (or do you not remember the period of "budget cutting" a couple decades back which consisted of not giving various agencies as much MORE money this year as they had expected to get, but still giving them more than last year (and more than inflation)? Those were "budget cuts" as defined in Washington....
True. Fortunately, I do know what an acre is - 1/640th of a square mile. If it helps, a mile is 1609 meters (approximately).
I used a calculator to verify the accuracy of the numbers. Feel free to check me - it's always possible I mistyped something.
About ten square feet per square meter is a pretty good approximation.
And 2.5 acres per hectare, as I recall.
Note that both of those estimates are within 2%.
Last I checked, a foot was 304.8mm (25.4mm per inch, 12 inches per foot).
No, 2mm/year means 16 inches in 200 years.
Or is an inch 50mm where you come from?
BLOCKQUOTE>but I think we need to argue what he said and not how he said it.
We should argue about both.
How he said it affects whether people even finish reading what he said.
You can make complex points using paragraphs, rather than just stringing ideas together with commas till your readers can no longer follow your points.
In my case, I hit that sentence I quoted, and by the time I figured out what he was saying, I was no longer interested in continuing to read his comment.
So, even if his ideas were enough to revolutionize several sciences, they're not presented clearly enough that people will work their way through even the three paragraph summary.
Actually, they've always borrowed against it. The "Social Security Trust Fund" consists of a bunch of intra-governmental (zero interest) T-Bills (essentially IOU's) because any income surplus to actual needs is automatically lent to the General Fund.