The city government is not a private concern, and it shouldn't operate like one. How are those residential associations supposed to form in the first place?
What I don't understand is what we're supposed to do with the oil companies. They supply a demand in the market, and the demand won't go away just because we nuke the oil companies.
I'm glad that it worked out. Sometimes it doesn't, and the consequences can be pretty bad.
Were you able to treat her the same as your other subordinates? Did that interfere with your dating life? (There's often boss-subordinate friction.) Did your other subordinates think you were fair? Did she ever feel that, if she ended the relationship, she'd be treated differently as an employee?
You could have destroyed your effectiveness with your other subordinates. You could have been sued successfully for sexual harassment, if you implied that the continuing romantic relationship was significant in any workplace decisions. You could have been in trouble for promoting your lady love or giving her a raise. Your company does not have any direct interest in your sex life. They do have a direct interest in your performance as a manager, ability to stay out of sticky personnel relationships that require company attention, and ability to stay out of lawsuits.
Just saying that the category of "white guy" is the only one that people are completely, 101% free to disparage, and attack without impunity these days.
I've seen other categories of people disparaged with the same freedom. Muslims, fat people, poor people, Native Americans, to name a few. Some people will object to it, but then some people will object to disparaging white men. It may be that you notice disparagement against white men more than disparagement against other groups.
The difference is that we can measure all the properties of a marble statue that we're concerned with, but we can't do that with a photon. We can test its polarization, but we get a binary value that's the result of a probability function that we don't know. (We know how it works, just not what the values are.)
What I want is an iPhone with all the nifty new features that fits in all my shirt pockets and has a headphone jack. So far, I haven't seen anything that tempting to replace my 5S with.
You're monitored 24/7/365 by carrying a phone that's talking to towers. Your purchases on credit cards are monitored. If you want to go under the radar for a period, don't carry a phone but have lots of cash.
Some people seem to be a lot less careful with phones than my family. We've had at least two smartphones in the family since a few months after the first iPhone came out, and nothing untoward has happened to any of them.
Who's pushing the cost? The guy who thinks Apple will or should jack up the price? I haven't seen a sign of a raised price from Apple.
iPhones are priced similarly to other top-of-the-line phones, last I looked. There has been competition in the form of inexpensive Android phones for some time, and the higher-end ones still seem to sell.
Possibly it's because a high-end smart phone really isn't that expensive per use. I don't remember what SGI charged, but I suspect it was pretty much up there.
Paying €600 extra could never be worth the added value these 'top end' phones provide.
If you keep a phone for two years (I keep them longer), you're spending less than a euro a day for a high-end phone. If you use your phone as much as lots of us do, you may well find a phone that's nicer to use worth the money. I understand that this doesn't apply to you, but lots of people prefer certain phones, and the additional money isn't that much.
Smartphones aren't expensive. I spent $30K on a car that I might not keep for a full 15 years, so that's $2K/year just for the price of the car, disregarding maintenance and consumables. Compared to that, spending $800 on something I use numerous times daily for maybe three years isn't all that expensive.
What you're paying for when you buy Apple is basically a high-quality phone with good support and iOS. If you like iOS better than Android, spending less than a dollar a day for something you're constantly using may be a very good use of your money.
If you're in a technical field, and can't afford to spend $1200 on a phone every few years, something's wrong. If you don't want to spend $1200 on a phone, or prefer to stick to a budget that prevents that, fine.
What's this about buying development tools? You can go out right now and download what you need from the Apple site, free. You can develop in several different languages, and Visual Studio does support iPhone development if you're on Windows.
If your heart is convinced you are imprisoned, no amount of freedom will help you.
I assure you that being an iPhone owner has not impaired my ability to use my Android Tablet, Nook Simple Touch, Windows laptop, Ubuntu desktop, or Nintendo 3DS. If I can do as I please, am I not free?
Depends on how you live your life. If my life depended on impressing other people with my status, I'd (a) pay more for things people notice, and (b) flounder almost helplessly because I don't have the social skills to pull that crap off. I prefer hanging with people who value me for my personality and my software skills.
It's not just a status symbol. If you prefer iOS, then an extra $300 for a device you'll get a lot of daily use out of for the next three years is not very expensive. Look, when I want to be cool I adjust the thermostat. My only claim to being a hipster is being a geek before it was popular. I long ago gave up status symbols, because I really can't do stylish. I like my iPhone.
I got my iPhone 5s pretty much when it came out, and it's till working pretty well. I'm wondering about replacing the battery, since it seems I get a little less life than I did three and a half years ago, but if I have it done by Apple (the expensive way) it's only $80. My first (original) iPhone died after about three years with touchscreen malfounction, and I replaced my second (after about three years) because I wanted the new functionality.
There's a variety of predefined ring tones. I haven't checked how to insert my own.
The reason they all have the Marimba ring tone is, apparently, that nobody bothers to change it. Back before I realized that I didn't need a ring tone for a device that lived in my shirt pocket, I had several ring tones for different callers.
Could you provide a cite? You're claiming that there is a legit model that says that, when we've burned all convenient fossil carbon, temperatures will drop. What happens to all the additional CO2 in the air? You're claiming that people have been burning large enough amounts of fossil fuel to matter for millennia. Actually, what people typically burned for millennia were things like wood, which are carbon-neutral.
If that model showed up in Scientific American, it was as a bad example. If you want me to believe SciAm published it seriously, I'm going to need the specific issue at least.
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The city government is not a private concern, and it shouldn't operate like one. How are those residential associations supposed to form in the first place?
What I don't understand is what we're supposed to do with the oil companies. They supply a demand in the market, and the demand won't go away just because we nuke the oil companies.
You're going beyond the evidence there, pardner. Bill Clinton was clearly a big jerk, but he rarely if ever went over the legal line.
Looking for the best man for the job is not the same as looking for the best person for the job.
You seem to want to imply that these are different things.
I'm glad that it worked out. Sometimes it doesn't, and the consequences can be pretty bad.
Were you able to treat her the same as your other subordinates? Did that interfere with your dating life? (There's often boss-subordinate friction.) Did your other subordinates think you were fair? Did she ever feel that, if she ended the relationship, she'd be treated differently as an employee?
You could have destroyed your effectiveness with your other subordinates. You could have been sued successfully for sexual harassment, if you implied that the continuing romantic relationship was significant in any workplace decisions. You could have been in trouble for promoting your lady love or giving her a raise. Your company does not have any direct interest in your sex life. They do have a direct interest in your performance as a manager, ability to stay out of sticky personnel relationships that require company attention, and ability to stay out of lawsuits.
I've seen other categories of people disparaged with the same freedom. Muslims, fat people, poor people, Native Americans, to name a few. Some people will object to it, but then some people will object to disparaging white men. It may be that you notice disparagement against white men more than disparagement against other groups.
The difference is that we can measure all the properties of a marble statue that we're concerned with, but we can't do that with a photon. We can test its polarization, but we get a binary value that's the result of a probability function that we don't know. (We know how it works, just not what the values are.)
What I want is an iPhone with all the nifty new features that fits in all my shirt pockets and has a headphone jack. So far, I haven't seen anything that tempting to replace my 5S with.
You're monitored 24/7/365 by carrying a phone that's talking to towers. Your purchases on credit cards are monitored. If you want to go under the radar for a period, don't carry a phone but have lots of cash.
I had that problem, so when I got my 5S I got 64G. Three years later and it's only half full. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Some people seem to be a lot less careful with phones than my family. We've had at least two smartphones in the family since a few months after the first iPhone came out, and nothing untoward has happened to any of them.
Who's pushing the cost? The guy who thinks Apple will or should jack up the price? I haven't seen a sign of a raised price from Apple.
iPhones are priced similarly to other top-of-the-line phones, last I looked. There has been competition in the form of inexpensive Android phones for some time, and the higher-end ones still seem to sell.
Possibly it's because a high-end smart phone really isn't that expensive per use. I don't remember what SGI charged, but I suspect it was pretty much up there.
If you keep a phone for two years (I keep them longer), you're spending less than a euro a day for a high-end phone. If you use your phone as much as lots of us do, you may well find a phone that's nicer to use worth the money. I understand that this doesn't apply to you, but lots of people prefer certain phones, and the additional money isn't that much.
Smartphones aren't expensive. I spent $30K on a car that I might not keep for a full 15 years, so that's $2K/year just for the price of the car, disregarding maintenance and consumables. Compared to that, spending $800 on something I use numerous times daily for maybe three years isn't all that expensive.
What you're paying for when you buy Apple is basically a high-quality phone with good support and iOS. If you like iOS better than Android, spending less than a dollar a day for something you're constantly using may be a very good use of your money.
If you're in a technical field, and can't afford to spend $1200 on a phone every few years, something's wrong. If you don't want to spend $1200 on a phone, or prefer to stick to a budget that prevents that, fine.
What's this about buying development tools? You can go out right now and download what you need from the Apple site, free. You can develop in several different languages, and Visual Studio does support iPhone development if you're on Windows.
If your heart is convinced you are imprisoned, no amount of freedom will help you.
I assure you that being an iPhone owner has not impaired my ability to use my Android Tablet, Nook Simple Touch, Windows laptop, Ubuntu desktop, or Nintendo 3DS. If I can do as I please, am I not free?
Depends on how you live your life. If my life depended on impressing other people with my status, I'd (a) pay more for things people notice, and (b) flounder almost helplessly because I don't have the social skills to pull that crap off. I prefer hanging with people who value me for my personality and my software skills.
It's not just a status symbol. If you prefer iOS, then an extra $300 for a device you'll get a lot of daily use out of for the next three years is not very expensive. Look, when I want to be cool I adjust the thermostat. My only claim to being a hipster is being a geek before it was popular. I long ago gave up status symbols, because I really can't do stylish. I like my iPhone.
My iPhone does pretty much what I want a phone to do. It doesn't act crippled. Obviously, you may want to do different things with your phone.
I got my iPhone 5s pretty much when it came out, and it's till working pretty well. I'm wondering about replacing the battery, since it seems I get a little less life than I did three and a half years ago, but if I have it done by Apple (the expensive way) it's only $80. My first (original) iPhone died after about three years with touchscreen malfounction, and I replaced my second (after about three years) because I wanted the new functionality.
There's a variety of predefined ring tones. I haven't checked how to insert my own.
The reason they all have the Marimba ring tone is, apparently, that nobody bothers to change it. Back before I realized that I didn't need a ring tone for a device that lived in my shirt pocket, I had several ring tones for different callers.
Neither cite says that it's too late. Both claim that we need to take action now.
Could you provide a cite? You're claiming that there is a legit model that says that, when we've burned all convenient fossil carbon, temperatures will drop. What happens to all the additional CO2 in the air? You're claiming that people have been burning large enough amounts of fossil fuel to matter for millennia. Actually, what people typically burned for millennia were things like wood, which are carbon-neutral.
If that model showed up in Scientific American, it was as a bad example. If you want me to believe SciAm published it seriously, I'm going to need the specific issue at least.